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    "localId": "133280",
    "label": "Courtesan (recto)",
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    "id": "133280",
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    "title": "Courtesan (recto)",
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            "inscription": "signed, lower right, in black crayon: A [illegible, scraped away] - Forain / 1 Janvier 1906"
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