(a) A hand-made glass bottle with a slight manufacturing pontil mark on the bottom; the bottle has a cylindrical body that flares slightly before tapering to a hand-tooled neck with a pronounced lip that turns outwards; the body of the bottle has a paper label affixed to both the front and back; th…
(a) A hand-made glass bottle with a slight manufacturing pontil mark on the bottom; the bottle has a cylindrical body that flares slightly before tapering to a hand-tooled neck with a pronounced lip that turns outwards; the body of the bottle has a paper label affixed to both the front and back; the glass stopper (b) is mushroom-shaped with a tapered stem that has leak-proof grindings.
Number Of Parts
2
Part Names
a - bottle - Size: Length 15.5 cm x Diam. 6.2 cm
b - stopper - Size: Length 5.2 x Diam. 3.7 cm
Provenance
Used by either Dr. C. H. Bird or Dr. Godfrey Bird, of Gananoque, Ont.
Dates
1900
1920
circa 1900-1920
Material
glass: clear
paper: red; discoloured white
paint: faded black; white
Inscriptions
Two handwritten labels on bottle both read, "Tr. Belladonna" with the second label faint and difficult to read; (b) top of bottle stopper has the number "8"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A4-2
Condition Remarks
Chipping on lip and bottom of bottle; brown staining on interior walls of bottle; slight staining on stem of bottle stopper; tiny flecks of paint on top of stopper and bottom of bottle
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Reference Comments
"Catalog of Laboratory Apparatus and Scientific Instruments (JC-141)," by CENCO (Central Scientific Company of Canada), copyright 1942, p. 61 (similar to item 10425)