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A & F Pears Ltd

Soapmakers by Royal Warrants to their Majesties the King & Queen
28 September 1910
229 x 292mm (9 x 11½in)

An order and sample label from A & F Pears Ltd, Soapmakers, to Gilbert Whitehead & Co Ltd, printers, for one and a half million Glycerine box-top labels at one shilling and seven pence per thousand.

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