Specimen drawer
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
1832
Materials
wood & shell
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Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290173
Summary
Contents of 10th specimen drawer from top (in CAL/F/1526) on left side comprising 17 boxes. Seven wood-strip boxes containing similar greenish small shells, one labelled 'Orenilla tricos'. Two oval boxes have original lids with a printed label 'Shepherd's Ipecacuanha Lozenges' and the other 'Walsh's Lozenges of Coltsfoot'. 11 other oval wooden boxes, 3 pill boxes, 3 rectangular boxes. Inscriptions on boxes; 'Tellina Tragihi (with a London medicine warehouse label),' 'Venus Qaphia', 'Butta Athena' 'Walsh's Lozenges of Coltsfoot .. for .. Complaints in the Breast' 'M.Janthine 1832', 'H.Paxley 'Aici Nue', 'H. Janthine 1832','Tellina donaccina and printed label 'The Lettuce lozenge', 'Lime Loscombii', 'Fornatilis and 'Smaller Blue Snail Shells', 'Scaphander lignarius', 'The pills for J.L. Puxley Esq. Apr. 4th', 'Single of Luimia of Psammobia and broken fusey'.
Marks and inscriptions
Walsh's Lozenges of Coltsfoot (printed on lid of oval box)