Bits and pieces by Lois

Women made beautiful by Diano…

This mysterious treatment was advertised in The Sphere in 1900. By 1904 this extraordinary but secret treatment was discussed in an article in ‘Weldon’s Ladies Journal’, entitled, ‘There is no power like the magnetism of curves’… well I should be pretty powerful as I have plenty, more than enough curves, although I have never known any […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Tick tock

This advertisement appeared in a news magazine called The Sphere, on July 14th 1900, for a ‘field’ watch at the cost of £25. According to some calculations that I have seen, this would be about £2,500 today. This jewellers was founded in 1847 by  James William Benson and Samuel Suckley Benson; they did not just […]

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