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Drug advertising ephemera. Box 78.

A. & F. Pears Limited ...  : £200,000 debenture stock of the above-named company, carrying interest at the rate of £5 per cent per annum.

Pears' soap : matchless for the complexion / Pears.

Mary Ray.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

The special commission : Pear's soap used by all the best judges.

Pears' shaving soap : 12 months of comfort for 12 pence : sold everywhere : a shilling stick lasts twelve months : Pears' transparent shaving stick, 100 years established as the cleanest and best preparation for shaving.

Three vignettes of people promoting the use of 'Pears soap'. Photomechanical reproduction after D.E. Wyund.

Pear's : the pure soap.

A vase of flowers, books, a violin, artist's palette and brushes all sit on a table in a room with panelled walls. Chromolithograph after E.G. Handel Lucas.

Pears original transparent soap : Pears "golden glory" / Pears.

100 years ago : Pear's soap in use 100 years ago and still the best to-day / Pears.

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Pears (A. & F.) Limited

Images from the collections

Images produced by Pears (A. & F.) Limited

Works from the collections

Pear's : the pure soap.

A vase of flowers, books, a violin, artist's palette and brushes all sit on a table in a room with panelled walls. Chromolithograph after E.G. Handel Lucas.

Pears original transparent soap : Pears "golden glory" / Pears.

Pears' soap : matchless for the complexion / Pears.

100 years ago : Pear's soap in use 100 years ago and still the best to-day / Pears.

Pears (A. & F.) Limited

Images from the collections

Images produced by Pears (A. & F.) Limited

Works from the collections

Pear's : the pure soap.

A vase of flowers, books, a violin, artist's palette and brushes all sit on a table in a room with panelled walls. Chromolithograph after E.G. Handel Lucas.

Pears original transparent soap : Pears "golden glory" / Pears.

Pears' soap : matchless for the complexion / Pears.

100 years ago : Pear's soap in use 100 years ago and still the best to-day / Pears.

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