Accession No

6028

Brief Description

Hirschwald’s blowpipe set for chemical analysis, German, circa 1891

Origin

Germany

Maker

Class

natural history

Earliest Date

1891

Latest Date

1891

Inscription Date

Material

wood (mahogany, boxwood, cork); metal (brass, steel); glass; horn; material (felt)

Dimensions

box length: 233mm; width 115mm; depth: 32mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Tesseract, Box 151, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 10706, U.S.A., on 01/12/2004.

Inscription

Description Notes

blowpipe set for chemical analysis, in a felt-lined case, to the design of Dr. J. Hirschwald. Contains three coloured glass filters; a thin metal strand, bent into a hook at one end; a pair of tweezers, with a slider to lock them; a small horn magnifier; a large pair of wire cutters; a small glass phial, stoppered with a cork, which contains a metal plate and wire, and which has a half-torn label; a larger pair of tweezers; a piece of polished steel, sharpened at both ends; four parts of the blowpipe apparatus, one of which has an ivory handle, one a mahogany handle.

Condition: good (complete).

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