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Award of Arms for Arturus Falconeri
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Falconer: red hose, violet-black doublet, brown slashed sleeves, green boots w. gray reveres, black cap, belt, purse w. knife
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Hunting with Golden Eagles from T.E.Gordon's Roof of the World, 1876
Original Drawing
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Tunic line with ermine
Original Artwork
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Women conversing, man with bird, 12th century
Original Drawing
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Wooden sculpture of man and woman falconers
Colour Photograph
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A extensive landscape with a hawking party
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A Hawking Party, Cover of a set of writing tablets, Germany, 1330-1350
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A trained mature Siberian goshawk with an austringer in South Korea
Colour Photograph
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Agne Atmacacipe
New Sparrowhawkers: instruction on sparrowhawking for apprentices
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During the Second World War the British Air Ministry feared that German spies were using homing pigeons to pass on information, and so employed falconer Ronald Stevens to intercept pigeons crossing the coast using peregrines. After the war he went on to become a pioneer of clearing airfields with falcons.
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