Bidspirit auction | An Assortment of Vintage Pharmaceutical


An Assortment of Vintage Pharmaceutical Glassware, Medicinal Canister, and Tobacco Tin - An assortment of vintage pharmaceutical and tobacco related items. The collection includes three rectangular cobalt blue glass bottles with black screw-top closures. One bottle bears a printed paper label reading TAB. POTASS. CHLOR. gr. 5, with a smaller secondary adhesive label at the base reading WILLIAMSON & HOGG Ltd. CHEMISTS NORTH SHIELDS. A second bottle features a printed paper label reading TAB. PHENACETIN. gr. 5. The third bottle has a handwritten paper label that is heavily faded, with legible characters appearing to spell GREGORY. An oval-section cobalt blue glass bottle features embossed graduations on the body for OUNCES and a scale numbered 1 through 4, fitted with a textured metal screw cap. Also included is a white-coated cylindrical metal canister with a metal screw-top lid, bearing a label printed in black and red reading 500 tablets, Slow-K, 600 mg potassium chloride B.P. in slow release base and marked at the base C I B A. The group is completed by a cylindrical tinplate container with a pale green paper label for 50 CIGARETTES featuring a central capstan motif and text reading Every genuine CAPSTAN NAVY CUT Cigarette bears the name W.D. & H.O. Wills. The tin lid features an embossed CAPSTAN trade mark.