Malcolm Webb - Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt panel

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Rectangular quilt panel, landscape orientation, on a pink and white vertically striped background. 'Malcolm Webb' and the dates '21.7.43 - 16.2.94' are painted in brown paint. There are five machine-appliqued patchwork flowers placed at random and two…

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