Cochineal production at the town of Guaspaltepeque Product:Postcard 'Lilly white Vinegar 3 pence

'Lilly white Vinegar 3 pence a quart'

Four views of a Roman villa discovered in Lower Thames Street

Saturday 27th April 1963

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Cochineal production at the town of Guaspaltepeque Product:Postcard 'Lilly white Vinegar 3 penceSchematic view of the town of Guaspaltepeque, in Oaxaca State, Mexico,as a centre for cochineal production. The simplified landscape shows a church and curate's house, but mainly the agriculture, collection and processing of cochineal, the traditional Mexican dye, from the scale insect Dactylopius coccus. From the manuscript copy paper 'Dr Houston's letter to Sir Hans Sloane giving an account of some plants and enclosing a draught of the town of