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1908 tinted postcard of opening display at Westgate Towers Museum, Canterbury, Kent, England, which opened in 1908. The Magna Carta maquettes, L to R, are: Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford by J. Thornycroft, Almeric de St Maur by Patrick MacDowell, and Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford by Frederick Thrupp.

Full searches were carried out over several years in Canterbury museums, libraries, archives and books about postcards, and no images like this one were found. No reference to such an image was found. No hint or clue about the author of this photograph was found. The back of the postcard was printed with the word "postcard" and the usual postcard division lines, but there was no other writing there. This is usually taken to mean that the photographer is anonymous. The original photograph was in due course donated to a Canterbury museum after uploading.
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