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Daisy chain, c. 1905

Romanticized postcard, unused, but probably produced during the first decade of the twentieth century.

Nothing can be found out about Daisy Ltd of Leeds, or their ‘famous headache cure’, but it’s probable that if the cure contained any ‘daisy’ extracts they were from feverfew, Tanacetum parthenium, which is well-known as a cure for migraines, rather than the common, or lawn, daisy, Bellis perennis.

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