beige linen sack, stained and dirty, with a deteriorated paper label affixed to the front. Handwritten on the front in brown ink is 'Parcel Post. Andrew Smith, Katberg / To Professor Fraser of the Materia Medica Chair, Edinr. University, 13 Drumsheugh Gardens / Edinburgh, / Scotland.' linen bag from G.T Goldie, South Africa, 1894 1894
Great Northern Railway / North Eastern Railway sack. Main section rectangular in shape and bears printed legend "GREAT NORTHER((N) RAILWAY CO. BOSTO(N) 1902.", and stitched to a small portion of a North Eastern Railway sack as a way of effecting a repair. Red printed stripe runs across the foregoing text. Repair section is narrower than main section and leads to a tapering of the entire shape. Crude stitched repairs to holes throughout. Great Central Railway/North Eastern Railway goods sack.