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Look what Martin Fennelly Antiques has put up for sale on-line: <a href='http://www.fennelly.net/Item.aspx?id=24230'>768 Antique Male Bronze Bust George Stephenson Railways Interest Edward William Wyon</a> <img src='https://file.4pm.ie/933/717e6fb2.jpg.105x137.png' alt='768 Antique Male Bronze Bust George Stephenson Railways Interest Edward William Wyon'/> 
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