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Leaflet or magazine insert printed in black and yellow advertising Mazawattee cocoa.The image shows an ornate, small sail boat landing numerous barrels of cocoa at what looks like a London dock. A young woman in exotic dress, jewellery, armbands and headress is shaking hands with Britannia, shield and flowers on the quayside behind her. It probably dates from the 1910s. Other versions of this exist with slightly different text on the back. This has additional details of the prices of the tins and states that it is "Sold by all first-class grocers throughout the kingdom" at the bottom of the text.

Drinks ephemera: cocoa and chocolate. Box 2.

Mazawattee cocoa : Britannia welcomes the new cocoa (Latariba) : [variant text].

Advertisement for the British Electric Institute's (of 25 Holborn Viaduct, London) use of the 'Ajax' dry-cell battery's electricity to cure "all forms of weakness", nervousness, insomnia, neurasthenia, paralysis, neuralgia, locomotor ataxy, epilepsy, rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, gout, dyspepsia, constipation, diarrhoea, liver and kidney troubles. This was probably a magazine insert. The front is an illustration of a seated, bare-shouldered Britannia holding a lily and a crown of laurels, flanked by 2 lions and a brazier, angels to one side, a view of the Crystal Palace and its fountains to the other. Text is titled: 'The effect of electricity on disease' and 'Electricity- the road to health'.

Electrotherapy & vibrators ephemera. Box 1.

International exhibition of artistic furniture and home decorations, food, health and pharmacy 1907 : Crystal Palace, London : diploma for Grand-Prix with gold medal awarded to "Ajax" dry-cell (section speciale de medecine) for electric-system...  / British Electric System.

A gummed stamp or seal that was sold to raise funds for the British Red Cross at the start of the first world war. This one is printed in green on white paper with a cross and the price (one penny) in red.

British Red Cross Society : 1D :  [Britannia supporting a wounded soldier lying on the battlefield, a horse-drawn ambulance approaches].

Leaflet or magazine insert printed in black and yellow advertising Mazawattee cocoa.The image shows an ornate, small sail boat landing numerous barrels of cocoa at what looks like a London dock. A young woman in exotic dress, jewellery, armbands and headress is shaking hands with Britannia, shield and flowers on the quayside behind her. It probably dates from the 1910s. Other versions of this exist with slightly different text on the back.

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Mazawattee cocoa : Britannia welcomes the new cocoa (Latariba) : [variant text].

International exhibition of artistic furniture and home decorations, food, health and pharmacy 1907 : Crystal Palace, London : diploma for Grand-Prix with gold medal awarded to "Ajax" dry-cell (section speciale de medecine) for electric-system... / British Electric System.

British Red Cross Society : 1D : [Britannia supporting a wounded soldier lying on the battlefield, a horse-drawn ambulance approaches].

Mazawattee cocoa : Britannia welcomes the new cocoa (Latariba).

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Mazawattee cocoa : Britannia welcomes the new cocoa (Latariba) : [variant text].

International exhibition of artistic furniture and home decorations, food, health and pharmacy 1907 : Crystal Palace, London : diploma for Grand-Prix with gold medal awarded to "Ajax" dry-cell (section speciale de medecine) for electric-system... / British Electric System.

British Red Cross Society : 1D : [Britannia supporting a wounded soldier lying on the battlefield, a horse-drawn ambulance approaches].

Mazawattee cocoa : Britannia welcomes the new cocoa (Latariba).

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