Sold for A$1,050
Savory & Moore, London Medicine Chest with 19 bottles including 2 x Elliott, Sydney and 2 x Altona Drops, 2 drawers are full including scales, A J. L. Townley, Pharmacist, Darling Point etched dose cup, clear eye bath and more. (NOT FOR POST). Medicine. Chemist. Savory & Moore, London Medicine Chest with 19 bottles including 2 x Elliott, Sydney and 2 x Altona Drops, 2 drawers are full including scales, A J. L. Townley, Pharmacist, Darling Point etched dose cup, clear eye bath and more. About 270 mm high. 1860s
Excellent. (N/A). AMAZING ITEM! Has an inlaid bone or iveory badge stating, "Prize Medal, 1862. / "For Excellence of Manufacture" / Savory & Moore. / Chemists to the Queen, / London." Several of the bottles have contents, hence this cannot be posted! Two Elliott Bors bottles are later items. Two Altona drops are a light green and great condition. The other bottles are all stoppered items with hand written labels or unlabelled. Top drawer has all sorts of odds and ends, even horse hair for stitches, brushes, scale and weights, little tabloid vials of all sorts from Faulding, Parke Davis & Co., etc. Larger bottom drawer has three smaller bottles with stopper and powdered contents, an English made clear glass eye bath and the main item, a J. L. Townley, pharmacist, Darling Point acid etched dose glass in great condition! An extremely well made chest with a great range of contents including the rare dose cup and the lovely Altona drops, this is a unique item which is a must have for any serious pharmacy collector. Estimate: $500-750
