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The one with the lizard motif is particularly nice. Leroy Fairchild took out design patents on several of his figural designs, including design patent 11,415 on September 16, 1879:
And this one, design patent 11,433, the very next week, on September 23, 1879:
Neither is identical to what’s crawling around this one, but I guess a lizard is a lizard . . . is a lizard.
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