Medicine box
Category
Medical & health
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Dalbergia nigra, Glass, Rosewood [dalbergia nigra], Steel, Wood
Measurements
165 mm (H)152 mm (W)114 mm (D)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338290
Summary
Medicine box - Box of rosewood veneer, with key in the lock. Contains - 10 glass bottles, most with cut glass stoppers including 'Castor oil, Essenced of Ginger'. A small drawer containing four small bottles with stoppers including 'James Powder, Calomel, Ess of Peppermint, Laudanum', also a small set of steel scales with brass weights.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.