Chemistry set
Stathams Laboratories
Category
Education objects
Date
circa 1939
Materials
Cardboard, glass and cotton wool
Measurements
Each test tube - 38 mm (length), Cotton wool - 70 mm (length), Box - 125 mm (length); 32 mm (height); 74 mm (depth)
Place of origin
Phoenix Place, 7
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 667660
Summary
Part of a chemistry set in a wooden box. There is a cardboard box with a paper label with printed information about spectacles (probably the box's original contents). The box contains 27 small test tubes and three pieces of cotton wool. Total number of items is 32.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Miss E Grimwood Taylor in 1984.
Marks and inscriptions
On the paper label on the box lid: 'If these spectacles be bent or broken, they should be returned / in this box to the address below. / The strength of the lenses and the dimensions of the frame / are registered and duplicates can be supplied at any time / C. W. Dixey and Son / 3 New Bond Street / London'
Makers and roles
Stathams Laboratories , maker