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Bewley and Draper Ltd, Dublin, a leaflet in the form of a bill of exchange, advertising Drapers Dichroic Ink, promising to pay out £1000 in 500 years time, 1 January 1897, serial number 5782, extremely fine, colourful and amusing
Outing unlisted £80-£120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes.

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Bewley and Draper were a successful company and Drapers Ink an extremely popular and long lived product. Indeed, this advert was produced several years after the death of its inventor, the original Mr Draper - Harry Napier Draper (1837-92) - a renowned Irish pharmacist of his day. He was so successful that at the time of his death (suicide, by taking cyanide) he left an estate of over £93,000.