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Trade Card advertising a new import of Cognac Brandy Jamaica Rum and Holland’s Gin as well as Madeira and other British Wines &c

1801 · 12760 — Leeds: printed by Thomas Wright January 18 1801. 11.9 x 7.6 cm. Printed on one side only with a border of small printer’s flowers. Bit darkened at edges with a little spotting on the bottom left corner.R. Spencer & Sons were a chemist and alcohol merchants in Leeds who imported good Brandy and rum from the Caribbean as well as Gin and what they called British wines viz. madeira malaga mountain calcavella orange cowslip &c “which from Age and Quality are little inferior to Foreign Wines of nearly double the price.<br>The card refers to a “present scarcity of corn†and advertise “pectoral and cordial balls for racers hunters and horses of every descriptionâ€. printed by Thomas Wright unknown