The picture show a receipt issued by the Wenham Lake Ice
Company which imported ice from America. It reads:
- Prize medals 1851 & 1862 for "excellence of manufacture" of
refrigerators
- Wenham Lake Ice Company
- 125 Strand, London, corner of Savoy St.
- Purveyors by special appointment to Her Majesty
- Received 1 September 1880 from Tomas Pacton Esq
- the sum of two pounds ---- shillings ----- pence
- for goods on account.
- For Wenham lake Ice Company
- M. Woodruff
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