1866. Restorations of Fossil Reptiles, page 80 of Henry Ward's 'Catalogue of Casts of Fossils'. Henry Ward sold scale model copies in America of Benja

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1866. Restorations of Fossil Reptiles, page 80 of Henry Ward's 'Catalogue of Casts of Fossils'. Henry Ward sold scale model copies in America of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' life sized sculptures of prehistoric reptiles at Sydenham Crystal Palace UK (1855). Both profited from the venture. These were the first commercial dinosaur models, though intended as museum or academic displays rather than

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