Three Late 19thC Glass Apothecary Bottles with Assorted labels, to include one for Perfume sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The hydrate of sodium sulphate

The hydrate of sodium sulphate is known as Glauber's Salt after the Dutch/German chemist and apothecary Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604–1670)

but one that has survived many a British summer thus far

Length: 26 inches

More extraordinarily the trunk still bears all of it’s original labelling and ticketing suggesting this trunk travelled with Sir John on his duties to any of Mauritius

Three Late 19thC Glass Apothecary Bottles with Assorted labels, to include one for Perfume sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The hydrate of sodium sulphateOrigin: English Period: Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1895 The Larger: Circumference: 10 inches Height: 7 inches The Smaller: Circumference: 6. 5 inches Height: 5 inches The first, and largest, in colourless form with original square cut glass stopper. Larger apothecary bottles such as this would have stored a multitude of various medical powders or liquids; and it is from these storage bottles that medicines would have been mixed,