Filing cabinet
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Wood
Measurements
255 x 425 x 305 mm
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Plas Yn Rhiw, Gwynedd
NT 647985
Summary
Small four drawer filing cabinet with metal 'D' handles contains drawer (a) 2 'Barts' surgical bandages, a roll of plugging gauze, 'Tanic Acid Jelly', two clinical thermometers, a phial of pale blue 'Fairy Dye', box of unidentified tablets a tube of Vaseline, marking ink, 'Virol' bandage fasteners, Bleach ointment, a brush, Elastoplast, a tourniquet strap, 'Glymiel' jelly. (b) a box of Rowney oil paints in tubes, an oblong ceramic mixing dish, an envelope full of bean seeds, three pairs of knitting needles, metal ruler, brass compasses, ruling pen, 3 watercolour pans, set square, handle from a woodcut tool. drawer (c) packets of seeds - 'Carters' Larkspur, branching. Tall flowered Mixed; 'Carters Clarkia Illumination, dated 1939; 'Pennells' Aqilegia, Long Spurred Hybrids; 'Bees' Helchrysum Monstrosum; 'Pennells' Wallfower, Mixed; 'Carters' Viscaria, Tall Mixed; 'Barr and Son' Lavender Lavandula Spica, 1941; 'Pennells' Poppy, Buffhams Hybrids; 'Carters' Spinich Beet, 1943; 'Barr and Son Leek, Barr's Selected Prizetaker; 'Barr and Sons' Garden Swede, Selected Early Yellow, 1941; 'Suttons', Carrot, James' Intermediate, 1941; 'S.Lloyd, Railway Stores, Pwllheli', Onion Ailsa Craig, 1944, 3 packets; 'Suttons' Cabbage Lettuce. Other envelopes/packets containing seeds - Tomato seed, Blackpool (contained in a C.W.S. Cucumber seed packet; Calutea; Lupin (Blue?); Ceratothyma Willmottianum (?); Peony Coealina; 1 unmarked small white packet of seeds; 1 packet of Wetting compound from Boots; 1 drawing pin box containing tin tacks; one eraser; 1 envelope containing remains of a few tablets and instructions; 1 invoice from Robinson and Cleaver Ltd, Linen Mftr and Merch; a cardboard slip case containing glass slides prepared by Honora Keating - lung samples, etc. drawer (d) An envelope of unidentified seeds; a brown paper bag of unidentified seeds; four candles; a large quantity of runner bean seeds.
Provenance
the property was given to the Trust as part of the Plas yn Rhiw estate between 1950 and 1966 by the Misses Eileen, Lorna and Honora Keating in memory of their parents, John William and Constance Annie Keating.