Glass specimen dish and glass bottle, both containing sumach

Made:: 1920-1940

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Clear glass specimen dish on glass back-plate, containing sumach berries from North America and a glass bottle with same content.

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A666516

Materials:: glass, clear and paper

Measurements:: depth 14 mm
diameter 49 mm
plate: length 103 mm
plate: width 64 mm
plate: thickness 3 mm

type:: container - receptacle

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Clear glass specimen dish mounted on a glass back-plate, containing sumach berries from North America.

Glass specimen dish containing sumach, on a glass backing

Clear glass specimen dish mounted on a glass back-plate, containing sumach berries from North America.

Measurements:: depth 14 mm
diameter 49 mm
plate: length 103 mm
plate: width 64 mm
plate: thickness 3 mm

Materials:: glass, clear and paper

Object Number:: A666516/1

type:: container - receptacle

Clear glass bottle with a cylindrical body and slightly concave base inscribed ‘R 4626/1937’. The shoulders taper inward to a straight neck fitted with a glass stopper. The object number (not part number) is written on the body. The bottle contains small reddish-brown smooth sumach (Rhus glabra) berries, with a fine coating of berry dust on the interior glass surface. A cream-coloured lined paper label, handwritten in black ink, reads ‘Sumach Berries / Rhus glabra –’. The contents originate from North America.