A Victorian pocket book bound with the skin of a would-be assassin has been found in a car boot sale.
The grisly find in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, came with a letter stating: 'I have only this morning discovered the long lost pocket book made out of the skin of the man who shot your father!'
The skin is believed have been taken off the back of a man who was executed after he tried to shoot a British major in the first Chinese Opium War of 1839.
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