Poison Bottle

Object/Artifact

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Sidney Museum and Archives

Name/Title

Poison Bottle

Entry/Object ID

1975. .376

Description

Green glass bottle, rectangular base and sides, neck slopes to circular mouth. Sides of bottle patterned with small dots and some longer lines, raised on surface - appears like rain. At base of bottle the glass is thicker, the inside base being raised in a curve. Appears to have seam-lines at corners. Mouth would take cork stopper. Seam runs through lip. (Ac-cession book states this as "very rare" L.G.)

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Meyer, M.

Notes

Accession Date: 01-Jan-75 Mode of Acquisition: gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Bottle

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Vessel

Nomenclature Class

Containers

Nomenclature Category

Category 07: Distribution & Transportation Objects

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

poison bottle

Created By

Garnham, Peter

Create Date

December 19, 1995

Updated By

[email protected]

Update Date

August 6, 2026