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Helen Banzhaf's Embroidered Textiles

I started buying 1920s and 1930s ceramics with my husband in the late 1970s. We'd find pieces in junk shops and antiques shops, quite often en route to and from Wales where I grew up. We didn't set out to be Art Deco collectors,

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