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Carter No.: 255

Handlist description: Third (innermost) coffin of gold

Card/Transcription No.: 255-10


weighs 110.4 kg. which would give a value as bullion somewhere
about £13,500.
Please tell Carter. I am not passing the news around in case he
likes to use it.
Salâms to you both.

Yours ever

R. Engelbach

Card no. 255-10 relating to Carter no. 255
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