Two Late 19thC Glass Apothecary Bottles with Painted Gold Banners, One for Sodium Sulphate sub-Antiques A remarkable piece of advertising

A remarkable piece of advertising history

The clean and flowing lines are less fussy than earlier silver rattles

Seen most often in Abbeys

The design is often one large geometrical medallion with smaller similar medallions within

Two Late 19thC Glass Apothecary Bottles with Painted Gold Banners, One for Sodium Sulphate sub-Antiques A remarkable piece of advertisingOrigin: English Period: Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1875 Circumference: 11 inches Height: 9 inches Both of good proportions bearing original, and, highly individual stoppers. Hand painted in onyx on gold crested banners. The first would have carried Sodium Sulphate, the very well preserved label clearly reading; SOD: SULPH:. Sodium sulphate is the sodium salt of sulphuric acid. Anhydrous, it is a white crystalline solid of formula