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Trade Cards
Date: 18th century-19th centuryReference: WA/HMM/CM/Col/108Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Ephemera
Mistress Stern : sub/dom service , PVC leather : worship my boots, called into submission : watersports punishment, slaves, tools of the trade.
Date: [1993]- Ephemera
Mistress Stern : sub/dom service , PVC leather : worship my boots, called into submission : watersports punishment, slaves, tools of the trade.
Date: [1993]- Books
Scientific trade cards in the Science Museum collection / by H.R. Calvert.
Science Museum (Great Britain)Date: 1971- Digital Images
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Spanish trade cards. On the reverse of this appears a prescription for Laudanum liquid of Sydenham.