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Regency Advertisements: Miracle Vegetable Syrup

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Carton of vegetable syrup seller being jeered by crowd of men in wigs

Appearing in the 1808 La Belle Assemblee, this ad promoted Mr. Swainson’s miracle vegetable syrup. Swainson was called a “radical quack” who sold vegetable syrups Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Hermit Position

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English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, 1875 Likely this young man was interested in being a garden or ornamental hermit.  These hermits lived in hermitages, follies, grottoes Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Attention Drawing Masters, Governesses, and Preceptors of Youth in General

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Appeared in the November 1817 issue of Ackermann’s Repository.  I love also the ad for the Lady and Gentleman’s Polite Assistant!