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A cast-iron ‘laughing lion’ pattern fireback,
a 20th century recast to a mid-seventeenth century design,
the lion passant guardant with rose, thistle and fleur de lys, and dated 1641, the depicted motifs are symbolic of and displaying support for Charles I and the House of Stuart,
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