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Omphalina epichysium

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1. Pileus fleshy, thin, umbilicate, light greyish / tan, margin very thin involute striatulate brownish [sic] / minutely squamulose, hygrophorous- [sic] / 2. Lamellae light grey, decurrant, [sic] distant / inserted / 3. Spores white / 4. Stipe…

One of the more than 350,000 women who joined the war effort as mechanics,. industrial workers, truck drivers, pilots, and other facets of the home front

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Pair of cast-iron, campana-form urns, the bodies semi-lobed with foliated handles, the scalloped rims with modified egg-and-dart motif, on ringed, tapered socles and integral square bases, marked “Wood & Perot Philadelphia."

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Pair of cast-iron, campana-form urns, the bodies shallow and semi-lobed, with fluted, ringed, and tapered socles and unusual wavy rims

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Pair of small, cast-iron occasional chairs, listed in 19th century trade catalogues as “hall chairs,” the backs of balloon form, with three-legged base and triangular stretcher

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Pair of stoneware roundels representing Day and Night

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Pair of terra-cotta lidded urns, the octagonal body of each urn ornamented with foliate motifs, the handles in the form of dragons, their open mouths grasping the lid of each urn, the lid with foliate terminal

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Pair of terra-cotta urns in the Renaissance revival style, the handles in the form of cherubic grotesque figures with arms crossed over chest, the body of the urns ornamented with floral swags and fleur-de-lis cartouches

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Pair of wooden architectural fragments in the Rococo Revival style, with central Green Man mask ornamented with foliate embellishments

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Parliament (George III) An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 25 March 1807

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