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Medicine Chest

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A mahogany medicine chest with two front doors containing two shelves each, five drawers with ivory knobs and a hidden compartment on the back. The cabinet contains a myriad of bottles in different sizes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pair of steel fish-shaped tweezers with ivory pincers, a steel balance with brass plates and three weights, and a key.
Title
Medicine Chest
Date
n. d.
Medium
Medicine Chest: mahogany with ivory knobs, brass hinges and escutcheons;Bottles: glass and plastic;Scale Set: balance - steel; plates - brass; weights - brass;Tweezers: steel and ivory;Key: Steel
Dimensions
Medicine Chest: 13 3/4 × 11 11/16 × 7 3/8 inches (34.9 × 29.7 × 18.7 cm)Open: 13 3/4 × 23 1/8 × 7 3/8 inches (34.9 × 58.7 × 18.7 cm)
Tags
Personal Artifact
Credit Line
Gift of H. Rees Mitchell.
Accession Number
1987.9.1-.27
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