Forgot this blog was here, until I got a spam comment which needed to be removed. Then I was reminded to check ebay for anything new and interesting.

Well, proving that ebay can still throw up the weird is this puzzling item.

Piece of paper

It looks like a folded and creased bit of paper. With another bit of paper stuck to it. And the description is even more puzzling;

Wrapper and Label appox 4.25'' x 3.5'' .P Edwards Pharmacist. c.1914. See scan.

Was P Edwards Pharmacist a world famous dispenser of pills and potions that made one better? Google says he's in Islington, and it appears to be just a local chemist. Why, then, does the seller think anyone - in a time of economy crisis - would want to pay 99p for what is just basically something that carried medicine home in, once?

I could, if I wanted to*, keep the little paper bag from my next visit to the pharmacy and list it on ebay - starting price 50p. Will have more value and use than this scrap of paper.

*You be relieved to know that I will not be even contemplating doing this.