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Northern Creek Sprite

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From the Private Collection of Rodney Singer Wellesbotham.
Specimen Type: Northern Creek Sprite.
Date Collected: 12 June, 1898.
Location: Oqugua, New York.
Additional Comments: Annoying, but not dangerous except in large numbers -- RSW.

Rodney Singer Wellesbotham (1873-1910), the only son of billionaire oaktag baron Archibald Wellesbotham, was obsessed with faeries. Over the period from 1895 to 1909 he claimed to have captured, killed, mounted and/or dissected, hundreds of these small beings, as well as a handful of other cryptozoological creatures.
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A truly beautiful work of art!! I just love it! If you ever create another and wish to sell it, just let me know