Gold-laced bantam and silver-laced bantam cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by Matthew Leno and winner of first prizes at Crystal Palace and Birmingham 1871. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by Ludlow from Lewis Wright’s The Illustrated Book of Poultry, Cassell, London, 1890.

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