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These crowns are found in the festively designed christmas crackers that decorate english holiday tables. Ideal for all party occasions and a must if making your own christmas crackers. There is no timelimit for the duration of this ive witnessed paper hats still on wellfed somnolent forms well past the queens speech, way into the evening and, occasionally, at breakfast the following morning. One of the largest paper crackers ever made measured 63 metres long and 4 metres in diameter.
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