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‘I don’t know much about this photo, other than that it’s from a family album and was unnamed. My grandfather gave me a 1855 Tower Rifle with the British coat of arms stamped on it and said it was from a soldier in the family who was working on the goldfields checking miners’ licences. There is a spyglass as

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