Wooden medicine chest covered with black shagreen and lined with red velvet

Wooden medicine chest covered with black shagreen and lined with red velvet

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Wooden medicine chest covered with black shagreen and lined with red velvet, containing 8 large glass bottles and 2 narrow glass bottles all with glass stoppers and pontil marks, 2 labelled, S. Maw, Son and Thompson, English(?), 1801-1880

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Category:
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A23858
Materials:
wood, shagreen, brass, lining, velvet and braid
Measurements:
height 187 mm
length 247 mm
width 197 mm
type:
medicine chests
credit:
Foster