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- ↑ H.J. Cave & Sons, Manufacturers of Railway Dress Baskets, Portmanteaus, Travelling Bags, English & Foreign Wicker & Cane Basket Work: Inventors and Patentees of the "Royal Victoria" Quinquepartite Expanding Basket.
- ↑ "Victoria Magazine Volume 8". 1866. p. 369.