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    WALLY WORLD

    Oct 29, 2019 3 minutes
    BY KRIS MANTY
    Image top left courtesy Heritage Auctions; all other images courtesy Rago Auctions

    If an inanimate antique could actually be capable of looking at you disapprovingly, even mockingly, it would be a Martin Brothers Wally Bird.

    Consider the bird at top right. It’s totally judging us for some bad life choice it thinks we made.

    Wally Birds were the creation of Martin Brothers, a pottery firm operated by brothers

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