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Duckham's Adcoids Enamel Advertising Thermometer - Enamel advertising sign/thermometer for Duckham's Adcoids featuring a central green thermometer panel flanked by black and white diagonal barber-pole stripes. The upper section is headed with the brand name Duckham's in green cursive script above three circular vignettes illustrating a hand opening an Adcoids packet, oil being poured from a spout, and a red Morrisol Sirrom engine oil logo. The lower section is lettered in green ADCOIDS SAVE :- POWER, POUNDS, PATIENCE. The central glass thermometer tube is secured by metal brackets and displays a dual scale in Fahrenheit from 0 to 120 and Celsius from -10 to 50. The reverse is finished in a dark coating and features a stencilled white property mark reading The property of Alexander Duckham & Co. Ltd., Duckham House, 16 & 18, Cannon Street, LONDON, E.C. 4.