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MAORI: Artist Cards by Horatio Gordon Robley ("GR") three of a Maori warrior with slightly different inscriptions (two for Iles of Rotorua, plus a fourth version used on an Iles Kodak Store advertising envelope with a couple of minor repaired tears) and a different horizontal design, all unused; plus Wellington Museum real photo "Fine Specimen Maori Carving" addressed to "Major-General H Gordon Robley" in London. [Major-General Horatio Gordon Robley saw service in New Zealand during the Maori Wars of the 1860s, and retained a lifetime fascination with the country & her indigenous people. He even fathered a child with a Maori woman. In 1887, at the age of 47, he retired from the Army. He died in 1930] (5 + envelope)