Cards: January 1890

I've been looking for ads for skrying crystals since I started processing The Two Worlds.

The range of services advertised, the linkages between the old, the new, and the alternative -- all fascinating.

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Later on in 1980, the vendor changes name, and location.

This was a pretty upscale, medico-scientific, address, as this advertisement (by our crystal-maker's brother? father? husband?) from the 1891 British Homeopathic Review indicates:

What strikes me as interesting is this: the text of the ad, modulo the address to which one applies, changes not one jot.

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And in the meaningless trivia department, 83 Grosevnor Street had in the 1840s been the home of J. B. Jarman the antiquarian, and, by the time Ian Fleming was old enough to smoke expensive cigarettes, he bought them -- Morlands, the same brand Bond smoked -- at Morland & Company, 83 Grosvenor Street.