Accession No

2620

Brief Description

set of eight measures with lids and a pipette, by De Grave, Short and Company, English, 1879

Origin

England; London

Maker

Degrave, Short and Company

Class

weights & measures

Earliest Date

1879

Latest Date

1879

Inscription Date

1879

Material

metal (bell metal); glass; wood; paper

Dimensions

largest measure: height 80mm; diameter 52mm smallest measure: height 29mm; diameter 22mm pipette length 173mm box length 264mm; breadth 200mm; height 76mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Christie’s, South Kensington, London, England; lot 134, 14/7/1980.

Inscription

‘IMPERIAL [capacity of measure]
West Riding of Yorkshire
1879 480’ (each of the measures)
‘PONTEFRACT. 515’ (paper label on pipette)
‘WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
STANDARD APOTHECARIES MEASURES 1879
DE GRAVE SHORT and Co. LONDON’ (lid of box)

Description Notes

Set of eight standard cylindrical bell metal measures. Imperial 1 - 4 fluid drachms ad 1 - 4 fluid ounces. Glass lid for each measure with a hole to make final adjustment to the content, by means of a pipette. Measures carry verification marks for 1879, 1889, 1903, 1949 and 1959. Later addition of ‘62˚F’ on side of each measure.
Glass pipette graduated 0 - 30 ‘minims’, numbered 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20, 30, divided to 1.
Fitted wooden box.

Condition fair (some corrosion); complete.

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