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Type/Technique

Hold-to-light works

Images

  • Beecham's "oracle" : this novelty is the property of Beechams Pills Limited, St. Helens, England : (registered trade mark no. 586676).
  • A shadowgraph of three men's legs in white trousers,showing female legs underneath the trousers. Process print, 195-.
  • A horrified old woman observing the monstrous contents of a drop of water through a microscope. Coloured transparency lithograph.
  • Fry's pure concentrated cocoa : a delightful beverage for breakfast or supper.
  • Bovril : "It's not the cowl that makes the monk" but Bovril makes the man : made from prime fresh ox beef / Bovril Limited.
All images (22)

Catalogue

    • Ephemera

    The missing word (copyright) : can be found by holding the picture up to the light / Vinolia Company Limited.

    | Date: [between 1901 and 1919]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Beecham's "oracle" : this novelty is the property of Beechams Pills Limited, St. Helens, England : (registered trade mark no. 586676).

    | Date: [1909?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Fry's pure concentrated cocoa : a delightful beverage for breakfast or supper.

    J.S. Fry & Sons. | Date: [between 1880 and 1889?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Beecham's "oracle" : this novelty is the property of Beechams Pills Limited, St. Helens, England : (registered trade mark no. 586676).

    | Date: [1909?]
    • Ephemera

    Mather's Nigrine : a jet black marking fluid for marking linen, cotton, &c. hold this up to the light.

    | Date: [between 1880 and 1889]
All works (19)

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