Accession No

4535

Brief Description

box of 36 small sample jars of organic salts used as drugs in medicine, by Edward Gressler, German, 1/4 20th Century

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Gressler, Edward

Class

medical; chemistry

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1925

Inscription Date

Material

glass; plastic (ivorine); salts (organic salts); wood; cloth (velvet, silk); paper; metal (brass)

Dimensions

box length 200mm; breadth 94mm; height 26mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Inscription

‘from Eduard Gressler, Fabrik chemischer, pharmaceut. etc. Apparate
Berlin, Schlossplatz no 4. Erfurt, Johannisstrasse, no 1167.’ (on back of label in lid)

Description Notes

box of 36 small sample jars of organic salts used as drugs in medicine; made by Edward Gressler; 1/4 20th century.

Fitted wooden box lined with blue silk and blue velvet, with brass clasps (one broken) contains set of 36 numbered jars of organic salts (one jar missing, replaced by small paper bag); paper table in lid with names of salts. Box is paper covered with stamped decoration on lid.

Found with sheet of paper (possibly unrelated), titled ‘Solar Phosphori, from Dr. Schuchardt’.

Condition fair (paper hinge breaking); incomplete (one jar missing - replaced by small paper bag)

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