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Plaster-of-paris lining

Patent drawing of a wooden bee-hive on splayed legs with a tapered wedge-shaped base, an alighting board leading to a bee entrance, and a cutaway section showing the plaster lining and hanging comb-frames inside.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVESCharles W. Sappenfield · November 11, 1879

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