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Description: | One of a set of 26 small circular Victorian playing cards. The front of the card has a colour picture of a bird of paradise (possibly a king bird of paradise, Cicinnurus regius), and the reverse has a clue to the identity of the animal depicted on the front: 'Who is beautiful, though very small?'.
caption: Frontal view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 27.12.50/1xvii
caption: Rear view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 27.12.50/1xvii | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | Bird of Paradise (Paradisaeidae) cardboard playing cards Family and Home King Bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus regius) | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-211590 | Go to resource |
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