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Finest mixed spice / Peter Leech & Son.

Yours for purity : Slade's spices / D. & L. Slade Co.

Indian recipe Oxo : lamb tikka kebabs / Tesco.

The three kings bring offerings to the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Dorigny after C. Maratta.

Cooking cinnamon or cassia / Peter Leech & Son.

The resurrected Christ appears before terrified soldiers. Etching by B. Bartoccini after F. Overbeck, 1848.

Stickney & Poor's mustards, spices and extracts are the best : if your grocer does not keep the send to us direct ... / Stickney & Poor.

Schwartz Christmas / [McCormick (UK) Ltd.].

Christ appears to the holy women after his death. Engraving by G. Huret after himself.

Bible. N.T. Matthew 27.57-60; Mark 15.46; Luke 23.53. John 19.38-42. The two criminals are sometimes portrayed crucified differently to Christ; here however only one hangs by his armpits; the other is crucified as Christ would have been. On the ground the Virgin laments over the body with four others. Mary Magdalene cradles its feet. Behind them men on horseback move towards the city. At the left of the picture, four old men, perhaps Jewish elders, survey the scene

1 print : chiaroscuro woodcut ; image 34.8 x 27.4 cm

Lamentation over the dead Christ on the mount of Golgotha. Woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1738, after Rembrandt.

Box file containing 29 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves .Includes: Sea Foam (salt? 1890s?).

General Collections Ephemera Collection

Food ephemera : Salt, herbs, spices. Box 1.

Curry recipes : Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter tasty dishes for every season.

Patent for a method of preserving salmon involving cloves, mace and common pepper.

Specification of Alexander Cockburn : curing salmon.

The text from Isaiah ("And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising") is compared with the story from Matthew 2.2 about the kings following the star to Bethlehem. Light emanates from the finger of the Christ child. The kings all hold vases; a crown and a sceptre lie on the ground. One king looks Arabian. A broken wooden roof joins with a large pillar

1 print : line engraving with etching ; platemark 55.5 x 33.1 cm

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Lamentation over the dead Christ on the mount of Golgotha. Woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1738, after Rembrandt.

Food ephemera : Salt, herbs, spices. Box 1.

Curry recipes : Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter tasty dishes for every season.

Specification of Alexander Cockburn : curing salmon.

The three kings bring offerings to the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Dorigny after C. Maratta.

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Spices

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Catalogue

Lamentation over the dead Christ on the mount of Golgotha. Woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1738, after Rembrandt.

Food ephemera : Salt, herbs, spices. Box 1.

Curry recipes : Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter tasty dishes for every season.

Specification of Alexander Cockburn : curing salmon.

The three kings bring offerings to the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Dorigny after C. Maratta.

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