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Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny (1 August 1857 – 2 September 1915) was an Australian rules footballer, frequently spelled Twopenny or Tuppenny;...
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This is the third work of twenty-five bought in a lot of Sundry Drawings and Watercolours, offered at Anderson & Garland Ltd, Newcastle upon...
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