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1899 Ad Duncan Lea Perrins Worcestershire Sauce Gravy - ORIGINAL LHJ4 XGMA6 Indian Coral TreeThis is a small original 1899 black and white print ad for Lea & Perrins' Worcestershire Sauce, sold by John Duncan's Sons in New York. 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