3-074-924 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for the Best Linen Marker that the World Ever Produced, 1883. '1 shilling. The invention of Ming Shulali, a Japanese chemist. It requires no heating, will not wash out, and does not burn the material. A child can use it. You can always carry it in your pocket, and use it as an ordinary pencil. It will mark five thousand garments. You may wash and rub them as hard as you wish, but you can never stir that mark. (Sent free on receipt of 1s. 2d.; or two for 2s. 2d.' A. FOOT and SON, 101, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD, LONDON, W.C'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.