Bottle, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Bottle, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.109.05
- Date:
- circa 1950
- Description:
- Medicine bottle and screw top. Brown pressed glass with mold seam; rectangle body with rounded corners and short curved shoulders; short cylindrical threaded neck. Screw top: plastic, threaded interior, white cardboard piece in top, ridged sides, "Mallinckrodt" in raised script top. "8 / DA.250" embossed on bottom of jar; circle with intersecting diamond embossed on bottom, "9" and "0" embossed either side; "4" embossed on bottom. Label adhered to front: "Rx" printed top in white, black background; "Magnesii / Oxidum" printed center in black, white background; "Mallinckrodt" printed bottom in white script, black background, "R" in circle below. Label adhered to back: "Magnesium / Oxide / U.S.P. Light" printed top black; "Mallinckrodt" printed black script, "R" printed in circle right; "Mallinckrodt Chemical Works / St. Louis New York" printed black bottom.
- Material:
- Glass
Plastic - Dimensions:
- H-5 W-1.9 D-2.9 inches
- Provenance:
- From the Wilfred B. Osgood pharmacy collection, consisting of the contents of the Knox Pharmacy and Roberts Rexall Store (a.k.a. Osgood's Pharmacy) in Farmington, N.H.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Donna T. Osgood in memory of Wilfred B. Osgood
- People:
- Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988)
- Subjects:
- Pharmacies, Pharmacists
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