A BOXWOOD MEDICINE BOTTLE CASE AND COVER

A BOXWOOD MEDICINE BOTTLE CASE AND COVER

EARLY 20TH CENTURY

containing a glass bottle, stopper and beaker, two cylindrical powderers with domed covers, a cylindrical inkwell and cover, a syringe case, a container and cover containing an hour-glass and a spherical box and cover on a short foot (7)

22.5cm high (max)

Provenance

The Geoffrey Chesters Collection of Treen.

Catalogue Note

For a similar medicine bottle case and cover, see Edward H Pinto (EH), Treen and other Wooden Bygones, ill 53 (C and D) where similar items are described as 'predecessors of the vacuum flask'.