Chemistry set
Stathams Laboratories
Category
Education objects
Date
circa 1939
Materials
Glass and fibreglass
Measurements
Fat blue glass - 50 mm (length); 25 mm (width), Watering can type container - 110 mm (length); 75 mm (height), Each bottle (min) - 60 mm (width); 120 mm (width); 120 mm (height), Each bottle (max) - 60 mm (width); 120 mm (width); 210 mm (height), Funnel - 130 mm (width), Small test tube - 75 mm (height), Test tube - 100 mm (height), Long test tube - 125 mm (height), Each glass container (min) - 50 mm (height), Each glass container (max) - 90 mm (height), Each glass dish (min) - 52 mm (diameter), Each glass dish (max) - 65 mm (diameter)
Place of origin
Phoenix Place, 7
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 667659
Summary
Part of a chemistry in a wooden box. The pieces are as follows: Five glass bottles of various sizes with long necks and bulbous at the bottom. These show signs of use. One glass funnel. One glass object shaped like a watering can with one closed handle and one open spout on different sides at different angles. One small glass container filled with yellow-white woven material, possibly fibreglass. This container is marked in green with 'W[609] Bros. Barnsley, W Resistant 40' in an ornate design. Five thin glass dishes, one larger than the others with a green edge. One thin flat piece of blue glass. One glass container containing thirteen glass test tubes. One test tube is smaller than the others and another is taller and thinner than the others. Total number of items is 29.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Miss E Grimwood Taylor in 1984.
Marks and inscriptions
On the bottom of the largest bottle: 'FOREIGN' On the neck of the smallest bottle: 'KAVALIER / 8 / BOHEMIA / 100 (the funnel also has this printed on it but CZECHSOLOVAKIA instead of 100.)' On the side of the fibreglass container: 'W[609] BROS. BARNSLEY / W / RESISTANT / 40'
Makers and roles
Stathams Laboratories , maker