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Davenport Collection website e-news #28 December 2025

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The December 2025 issue included:
– Arnold De Biere’s silk butterfly production.
– Madame Stodare.
– Maskelyne’s Mysteries as a Brand: an article by Philip David Treece.
– Frosty’s Christmas Magic set – and barked knuckles.
– 19th century panoramas, dioramas and illustrated lectures.
– Oswald Williams’s Red and Green Box.
– And have you seen . . .

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