Sales catalogue: Maggs Bros

Date:
22 June 1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/243
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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