Pulverized Ipecac Bottle Lid

Object/Artifact

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Patrick Henry's Red Hill

Name/Title

Pulverized Ipecac Bottle Lid

Entry/Object ID

01.31.3b

Description

Clear glass stopper lid to a bottle. It has a thick, rounded handle with a tapered cylindrical stopper. The glass on the sides of the stopper is frosted. The bottom of the lid is rough, showing where the glassmaker snipped it.

Made/Created

Date made

1800 - 1850

Dimensions

Height

1-3/8 in

Width

3/4 in

Depth

3/4 in

Material

Glass

Provenance

Notes

This ipecac bottle stopper lid comes from a larger set in the Henry family medicine chest (01.31.1). The lid also has a bottle (01.31.3a). This chest and its contents belonged originally to John (1796–1868) and Elvira McClelland Henry (1808–1875) during their years at Red Hill. The chest was passed down in the family to John and Elvira's daughter, Margaret Ann Henry Miller (1827–1881), and then to her daughter, Elvira Henry Miller (1850–1955). It was then given to Rose Miller Gammon Garrett (1946–) through her father, William Miller Gammon Sr. (1900–1970). William Gammon Sr. was a nephew to Elvira Miller. His daughter, Rose Garrett, is a third great-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry. On September 4, 2001, Rose Gammon Garrett donated the medicine chest (01.31.1) and its contents (01.31.2-25) to the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation.