1908 Ad Worcestershire Sauce Lea Perrins John Duncan - ORIGINAL ADVERTISING EM2 XGE7 MX4A12B5C95 zz3705

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1908 Ad Worcestershire Sauce Lea Perrins John Duncan - ORIGINAL ADVERTISING EM2 XGE7 MX4A12B5C95 zz3705This is an original 1908 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 sauce