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Lot 275
Sale 5994 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Nov 12, 2019
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,000 -
1,500
Price Realized
$1,125
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Mahogany medicine chest Reece & Co., London, England, early 19th century
With brass pull; containing glass bottles and drawers, many retaining labels for various medicinal herbs and substances and some retaining ingredients; includes mortar and pestle; one drawer with some original labels for Reece & Co., inscribed "The Family and Sea Dispensaries and Chemical Mineralogical & Veterinary Chests Adapted to all Climates/Prepared by Reece & Co. Pharmaceutical and Experimental Chemists Henrietta Street, Covent Garden"; another drawer retaining old envelope, inscribed "Thos. Healy Urbanna Va".
H: 18 in.