1899 Ad Lea Perrisn Worcestershire Sauce John Duncan - ORIGINAL ADVERTISING LHJ4 CD the Brandywine School and the

the Brandywine School and the San Francisco School of Design

Bloomington Illinois

and beckoning the viewer to the small house perched on the bluff

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1899 Ad Lea Perrisn Worcestershire Sauce John Duncan - ORIGINAL ADVERTISING LHJ4 CD the Brandywine School and theThis is a small original 1899 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