While rooting around the bowels of Welsh papers online in search of examples of Hayman’s Balsam of Horehound adverts I came across this rather splendid advertisement for replacement teeth from 1861:

Merthyr Tydfil Telegraph 8 February 1861

What I find intriguing about this advert is that you still get the same before and after style adverts for dental implants in the back pages of the Saturday papers …