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Regency Advertisements: London Straw Hat Manufactory and White Whalebone Hats

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These ads appeared in the May 1816 issue of Ackermann’s Repository.   Here is more about Charles Vyse, the hat manufacturer including some scandalous family Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Patent Sofas and Chairs

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19th century drawing room chair profiles

This ad appeared in the May 1815 Ackermann’s Repository.  They will provide “terms the most advantageous for prompt payment”. I have shared another ad from Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Troublesome Freckles and Facial Hair

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The ad appeared in the April 1817 issue of Ackermann’s Repository.  According to Plucked: A History of Hair Removal (Herzig, 2015) in the early 19th Continue →