Each day I will unveil a new entry in my Advent calendar based on adverts printed in the Illustrated London News during the month of December eleventy-one years ago.
Each day I will display an advert from my collection of the newspapers for your delight.
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Advent Calendar
1st Dec | Hewtons |
2nd Dec | J. Foot & Son |
3rd Dec | Mappin & Webb |
4th Dec | Van Houten’s Cocoa |
5th Dec | Y Wise Head Z |
6th Dec | A Life Size Doll |
7th Dec | Tatcho Hair Growth |
8th Dec | Parkins & Gotto |
9th Dec | Riley’s Billiard & Dining Tables |
10th Dec | Cadbury’s Cocca |
11th Dec | Sunlight Soap |
12th Dec | Apollo Piano Players |
13th Dec | Carters |
14th Dec | Allcock’s Porous Plasters |
15th Dec | Fox’s Spiral Puttees |
16th Dec | OXO |
17th Dec | Buffalo Bill’s Wild West |
18th Dec | Lactopeptine |
I’m always fascinated by the amount of sheer nonsense that could be peddled as ‘science’ in adverts.