1906 Ad Lea Perrins Woman Dress Worcestershire Sauce John Duncan Food Dinner CL8 XGT6 just north of Copenhagen (K¿benhavn)

just north of Copenhagen (K¿benhavn)

Aubrey Beardsley and Kay Nielsen

near Green Lake

designed by Charles Buckles Falls

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1906 Ad Lea Perrins Woman Dress Worcestershire Sauce John Duncan Food Dinner CL8 XGT6 just north of Copenhagen (K¿benhavn)This is an original 1906 black and white print ad for Lea & Perrins' Worcestershire Sauce. This company began around 1800, when local nobleman Lord Sandys decided to attempt to imitate a sauce he had tried in Bengal. Employing chemists John Lea and William Perrins, the two made an unsavory sauce and abandoned the leftover jars in a basement. When the chemists went back to try the sauce years later, they had discovered the aging process gave the sauce