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Sound advice! : from "the home of quality!" : you will greatly improve your aerated waters by always using Duckworth & Co.'s world-famous essences and colours / Duckworth & Co.

A Vespetro label illustrated with a bunch of four plants. Coloured engraving, 19th century.

The 4 finest essences in the world! / Duckworth & Co.

Ricola lemon-mint : sugar free, refreshing, soothing, herbal extracts : Swiss herb lozenges / manufacturer: Ricola AG ; UK importer: Cedar Health Ltd.

Four fruiting plants, a rose, a strawberry, a fig and a lemon, all with different types of pericarp. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.

Citron (Citrus medica L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured aquatint by G. Geri, c.1825, after D. Serantoni.

4 magnificent essences! / Duckworth & Co.

For ink-spots, iron-moulds, stains, &c. the true essential salt of lemons ... / William Bayley.

Beecham Foods had an idea. They blended fresh lemons with rich blackcurrants; added glucose for energy, and vital vitamin C. Result? A great new drink with a sweet-and-sharp taste - a drink to help people forget their colds - and it's called... : Lembena.

Improved acidulated lemon drops.

Triple distilled souluble essence of lemon extra quality : distilled from the choicest lemon fruit of sunny Italy / Rosenfeld, Stein & Co.

Testimonials : nothing so surely reflects the supreme goodness of a product as the testimony of satisfied and delighted users ... [brown] / Duckworth & Co.

Abridged export price list : May 1907 / Duckworth & Co.

The word "AIDS"; advertising a symposium on AIDS in Berlin. Colour lithograph by Lemon, 1991.

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The word "AIDS"; advertising a symposium on AIDS in Berlin. Colour lithograph by Lemon, 1991.