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- ↑ Home page, GAA. "Home page" . Retrieved 31 July 2013.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ↑ "Gemmological Society Formed". The Advertiser . Adelaide. 20 February 1947. p. 12. Retrieved 17 December 2015– via National Library of Australia.
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