ANTIQUE AMBER CHEMIST BOTTLE WITH ORIGINAL LABELS
An antique amber chemist bottle with its original glass stopper and labels for ‘Poison’ and ‘Zinc Chloride Sticks’. The manufacturing chemist’s details are also on the main label – ‘Harrington Brothers Ltd of 4 Oliver’s Yard, City Road, London, E.C. 1’. The bottle was manufactured by Beatson Clark and the base and inside of the stopper is embossed with their opposing arrows logo.
Here is some interesting history about the use of Zinc Chloride in medicine: Zinc Chloride
Age: Late Victorian to Edwardian
Condition: Very small nibble to the bottle lip and on the stopper. Original patina, wear, foxing and stains to paper labels.
Height inc stopper: 18.6 cm (7 ⅜ in)
Diameter: 8.3 cm (3 ¼ in)
Weight: 295 g (10.4 oz)
Stock number: 5926
PRICE £69
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