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Unread 04-08-2022, 05:30 PM   #1
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I would have guessed '93.





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Hey, I guessed pre-‘95, but you’re the expert.
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Hey, I guessed pre-‘95, but you’re the expert.
That's when there was still cocaine in the coca-cola.... Which might explain the artistic license in engraving those birds......

Looks like three hens $%*#ing at a drake, probably because he had chore'n to do and went hunting instead....
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That's when there was still cocaine in the coca-cola.... Which might explain the artistic license in engraving those birds......

Looks like three hens $%*#ing at a drake, probably because he had chore'n to do and went hunting instead....
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They remind me of African guinea fowl.

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Look like regular ol "Yard Birds" to me, the kind you find on the white house lawn! Gary
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I think they’re guinea
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Too much tail I think, for guineas.





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