Leather-covered wooden medicine chest with hinged lid and hinged swing doors at front

Leather-covered wooden medicine chest with hinged lid and hinged swing doors at front

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Leather-covered wooden medicine chest with hinged lid and hinged swing doors at front, decorated with steel strapwork mounts, containing number of bottles with pewter caps, and cylindrical and rectangular pewter containers, very worm-eaten. Dispensed by 'Brevete', Chemist to the King, Paris, ' Rue du Roule No. 8', French, 1771-1848

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Parts

Square dimpled clear glass bottle with pontil mark and pewter cap

Square dimpled clear glass bottle with pontil mark and pewter cap

Square dimpled clear glass bottle with pontil mark and pewter cap, containing some unidentified brown resinous deposit

Materials:
glass , pewter and cap, pewter
Object Number:
A79528 Pt1
type:
bottles
Square dimpled clear glass bottle with potil mark and pewter cap

Square dimpled clear glass bottle with potil mark and pewter cap

Square dimpled clear glass bottle with potil mark and pewter cap, containing some unidentified white powder deposit

Materials:
glass , pewter and cap, pewter
Object Number:
A79528 Pt2
type:
bottles
2 small rectangular dimpled clear glass bottles with pontil mark and pewter cap

2 small rectangular dimpled clear glass bottles with pontil mark and pewter cap

2 small rectangular dimpled clear glass bottles with pontil mark and pewter cap, containing some unidentified brown resinous deposit

Materials:
glass , pewter and cap, pewter
Object Number:
A79528 Pt3
type:
bottles
2 small rectangular dimpled clear glass bottles with pontil mark and pewter cap

2 small rectangular dimpled clear glass bottles with pontil mark and pewter cap

2 small rectangular dimpled clear glass bottles with pontil mark and pewter cap, containing some unidentified red powder

Materials:
glass , pewter and cap, pewter
Object Number:
A79528 Pt4
type:
bottles
Glass bottle with pontil mark

Glass bottle with pontil mark

Small rectangular dimpled clear glass bottle with pontil mark and pewter cap containing some unidentified white powdery deposit

Materials:
glass , pewter and cap, pewter
Object Number:
A79528 Pt5
type:
bottles
Cylindrical pewter container with screw cap

Cylindrical pewter container with screw cap

Cylindrical pewter container with screw cap, containing brown ointment supplied by de Lemaire, French

Materials:
pewter
Object Number:
A79528 Pt6
type:
containers
3 cylindrical pewter containers with screw caps containing dried up ointment

3 cylindrical pewter containers with screw caps containing dried up ointment

3 cylindrical pewter containers with screw caps containing dried up ointment, 2 with illegible paper labels

Materials:
pewter
Object Number:
A79528 Pt7
type:
containers
4 small cylindrical pewter containers with screw caps

4 small cylindrical pewter containers with screw caps

4 small cylindrical pewter containers with screw caps, empty

Materials:
pewter
Object Number:
A79528 Pt8
type:
containers
Pewter container

Pewter container

Rectangular pewter container with separate lid with ring handle once used for unidentified powder

Materials:
pewter
Object Number:
A79528 Pt9
type:
containers
Pewter container

Pewter container

Rectangular pewter container with separate lid with ring handle once used for unidentified powder

Materials:
pewter
Object Number:
A79528 Pt10
type:
containers
Leather-covered wooden medicine chest case with hinged lid and hinged swing doors at front

Leather-covered wooden medicine chest case with hinged lid and hinged swing doors at front

Leather-covered wooden medicine chest case with hinged lid and hinged swing doors at front, decorated with steel strapwork mounts (without contents see other parts), probably French, 1771-1848