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2002.91.43.21

Medicine bottle wrapped in white paper. [JP 28/11/2003]


2002.91.43.21

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Collection type
Object
Description
Medicine bottle wrapped in white paper. [JP 28/11/2003]
Long description
The paper wrapping is the original wrapping that the bottle came in when sold. Please note therefore that this paper wrapping could not be removed in order to ascertain the contents of the bottle. [JP 28/11/2003]
Person
Maker Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
Field collector E.R. Jones
Field collector Mrs E.R. Jones
Field collector Evan Rhys Jones
Field collector Elizabeth Jones
PRM source H.B. Jones
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1915
Date collected
1910 - 1915
Acquisition information
Donated: 2002
Materials and processes
Material Paper Plant, Material Glass
Dimensions
Length x Width 110 x 19 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2002.91.43.21
Research and responses

Full name of Dr E.R. Jones possibly Evan Rhys Jones, see records at Regent's Park College Angus Library and Archive which suggest he worked in Africa between 1910 and 1920 with his wife Elizabeth. They were Baptist missionaries and medical staff [AP 21/7/2016]

Search terms: Medicine, Vessel, Bottle