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This article explaining how to fold an 'Origami Angel' was published in 'The Observer' on 20th December 1959.

The same design was published in the Origamian for December 1959, where it was said to be Japanese.

It is worth noting that in this article Harbin refers to the Preliminary Fold as the 'Birdhold Base' and the Waterbomb Base as the 'Water Ball Base', showing that he and Samuel Randlett had not come to any agreement about standardised names at this date.

In his 'The History of Paperfolding in Britain', which was published by the British Origami Society in 1975, David Lister gives some background to this and the succeeding four articles:

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