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Lot 273
Sale 5994 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Nov 12, 2019
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,500 -
2,500
Price Realized
$938
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Two mahogany medicine chests 19th century
Both chests with brass pulls; the larger chest with lift-top and lower drawer, containing glass bottles, vials, mortar, and other accessories; the smaller chest with numbered glass bottles corresponding to interior paper label listing ingredients, inscribed "The Family Medicine Chest" and patent registered "May 9th, 1881"; many glass bottles retaining original paper labels and some retaining ingredients.
H: 8 1/2 in. (larger), H: 5 1/2 in. (smaller)