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Album of Firearms Ornament Containing Approximately Five Hundred and Forty Inked Impressions of Engraved Firearms Locks and Mounts, and Forty-Two Original Pen and Ink Designs on Forty Double-Sided Leaves

ca. 1840–80
Ink on paper
19.4 × 12.3 cm (7.6 × 4.8 in)

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