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Carter No.: 255b

Handlist description: Shrouds

Card/Transcription No.: 255b-1


255B. Shrouds

(1) Cloth of linen, fine quality; tucked above Nemes headdress of coffin. See photo.

Dimensions: 225 x 90 cents.

Hemmed on three sides the fourth was a selvedge, thus: -

<> 225 hemmed hemmed selvedge 0.90 hemmed warp weft

Card no. 255b-1 relating to Carter no. 255b
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