Chest, Medicine

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Chest, Medicine

Entry/Object ID

1993.251

Description

Rectangular wood box with lid hinged at back. Drawer in bottom. Flush loop handles on drawer and lid, locks are all brass. Inside lined with orange silk velvet with compartments for 4 large, 4 medium, 5 small colorless glass bottles with ground stoppers, some printed labels. 1993.252 found in drawer-a lock. Also, instruction book in drawer with letters.

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

10 in

Depth

8-7/8 in

Material

Wood (walnut?), brass, glass, silk, paper

Provenance

Notes

Label on bottle: Charles L. Eberle, Pharmacist (?), Market Square, Germantown Metal plaque on top: 1. Medicine Chest used by Stephen Grellet on his travells presently by the estate of his niece Elizabeth P. Smith 2. Stephen Grellet Born 11-2-1773 Limoges, France Died 11-16-1855 Burlington, NJ