26th Apr, 2018 12:00

Fine Photographica & Instruments of Science & Medicine

 
  Lot 37
 

An Early 19th Century Rosewood Domestic Medicine Chest

C.1810, of trunk form with single drawer below, rosewood with ebony stringing and brass carrying handles to either side, trunk top with fitted compartments with various bottles, eyebath etc, and a medicine measure and glass syringe, both in turned wooden cases, drawer below with scales, apothecary weights, a funnel, spoons and measure etc, lid containing an early, probably original list of medicines with their appropriate dosages, a further label in the lid reads 'Medicine Chest used by Revd. john Fox Palmer (1773-1838) while at Worcester College, Oxford', width 30.5cm

Sold for £576

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C.1810, of trunk form with single drawer below, rosewood with ebony stringing and brass carrying handles to either side, trunk top with fitted compartments with various bottles, eyebath etc, and a medicine measure and glass syringe, both in turned wooden cases, drawer below with scales, apothecary weights, a funnel, spoons and measure etc, lid containing an early, probably original list of medicines with their appropriate dosages, a further label in the lid reads 'Medicine Chest used by Revd. john Fox Palmer (1773-1838) while at Worcester College, Oxford', width 30.5cm
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