Small wooden drug mill

Made:
1601-1800
Small wooden drug mill

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Small wooden drug mill
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Small wooden drug mill, ovoid in shape with small circular horn base, European(?), seventeenth or eitghteenth century

Details

Category:
Pharmacy-ware
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A654806
Materials:
mahogany, ? material, lignum vitae, ? material and horn
Measurements:
height 133 mm
base: diameter 40 mm
body: diameter 60 mm
type:
mills

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