by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Clear glass, wide medicine phial, unembossed.
by Tom Licence | Apr 13, 2016
Two small medicinal phials, one brown, one aqua. The aqua one, when found, contained a small carved wooden stick of some sort, which may have been to do with its contents. Found in a ditch filled in 1883.
by Tom Licence | Mar 10, 2016
Medicine phials found amid ash and domestic refuse of the 1890s. Left, Powell of Blackfriars. This clear-glass bottle has been affected by its burial in the ground, which has given it a black coating. Right, an unembossed mould-blown medicine phial.
by Tom Licence | Jan 31, 2015
A small, free-blown phial for medicine or pigment that was decades old when discarded. It may have been sitting around in a medicine chest or an artist’s paint box.
by Tom Licence | Jan 31, 2015
These little octagonal bottles in cobalt blue or, less commonly, in amber brown are found in rubbish dumps from the 1910s. They may have contained eye-drops. (Information welcome.)
by Tom Licence | Jan 31, 2015
Two thin glass phials, one with a burst-off lip. The other, on the left, contains a gold-coloured residue. Contents unknown.
