Brown leather medicine chest for travellers

Made:
1920-1925 in England
Brown leather medicine chest for travellers

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Brown leather medicine chest for travellers, with contents, by Burroughs Wellcome, 1920-1925

Details

Category:
Emergency Medicine
Object Number:
1983-1155
Measurements:
length 190 mm
width 70 mm
height 110 mm
type:
medicine chests
credit:
Stewards

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