Fancy dress
Category
Costume
Date
1920
Materials
Cotton
Measurements
1145 mm (Length)
Place of origin
England
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Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 934661.1
Summary
Medicine bottle fancy dress, -1 bottle, turquoise square mesh dressed net over green glazed cotton, white buckram lining stiffened at hem; trimming white cotton band at neck with black ink lettering 'SHAKE THE BOTTLE', six stiffeners, red satin ribbon 140 mm and 7 mm, white tape 6 mm to indicate measures, eight metal hooks, eight buttonholed eyes, four press studs. White cotton label with black ink lettering 'To be shaken before taken, the mixture one tablespoon in half a wine glass of water to be taken three times daily after meals, No.2781, J.T.Holding M.Ph.S., Dispensing Pharmacist, 44 Railway Street, Altrincham'.
Provenance
Worn by Lady Jane Turnbull (b.1899)
Marks and inscriptions
TABLE-P-O-S (white paper letters stuck on)