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TM/9/8/05-“J. Hudson, Tobacconist to the Royal Family” – small printed advertisement with riddle.


“J. Hudson, Tobacconist to the Royal Family” – small printed advertisement with riddle. On reverse, manning has written “Mr Hudson’s Conundrum” and “Snuff conundrum”. Undated, printed and handwritten. (Joseph Hudson (1778-1854) was a veteran of the battle of the Glorious First of June and later a tobacconist to the British royal family who ran a cigar divan in Oxford Street, London.)