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A Curious Antique Sale Notice and Elixir Advert
An eighteenth century advertisement describes Thomas Chapmas in Howthem and Mr Richard Jest on of Brigg in Lincolnshire, detailing a bottle medicine and a horse race at Grantham Course with Plate prizes. It touts a Cephalick and Opthalmic tobacco and lists book sellers and engravers, all amid a lengthy claim of health benefits and sales in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drury-lase
Thomas Chapmas
Howthem
Linsole
Richard
Grantham
George Son
Sir Hans Sloane
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