Medicine bottle stopper
R. A. Potts
Category
Medical & health
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
114 x 44 mm
Place of origin
Grosvenor Square
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884398.2.2
Summary
Medicine bottle stopper - Glass bottle and stopper labelled Aromatised Sal Volatile from R.A. Potts, Chemist of South Audley Street, Grosvenor Square; one of twelve bottles from a travelling medicine chest with brass fittings and flush handles, LAN.MD.1.1.
Provenance
Probably acquired with the house as Mary Hunt, Anna Maria's mother, lived at South Audley Street, Anna Maria next door in Dean Street and Thomas James and Thomas Charles had a house in Grosvenor Square. R.A. Potts, Chemists, was known to be used by the family.
Marks and inscriptions
(printed label on front) AROMATISED/SAL VOLATILE./DOSE. From twenty to sixty drops/in Water or Camphor Julep/R.A. POTTS,/26, SOUTH AUDLEY ST. W.
Makers and roles
R. A. Potts, chemist