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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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$1,000 - 1,500
Price Realized
$1,125
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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.

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