I am a Cox's D.D.T. parrot : perch me in your room and I will kill all those flies / [James Cox & Co.].

  • James Cox & Co.
Date:
[between 1930 and 1939?]
  • Ephemera

About this work

Description

Die-cut card image of a yellow and green parrot with orange back and wings possibly from the 1930s. It was soaked in D.D.T. as an insecticide with the intention of killing flies. This would have looked bright and cheerful hung up in a room, a step up from messy fly paper. There is a similar printing of this [EPH/176/17] with extra text which is printed over the tailfeathers of the parrot. Presumably an earlier one.

Publication/Creation

[South Harrow] : [James Cox & Co.], [between 1930 and 1939?]

Physical description

1 broadside : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Contributors

Notes

James Cox & Co. were based at the D.D.T. Works, 368, Northolt Road, South Harrow, Middlesex.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    EPH/176/18
    By appointmentManual request

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