by Tom Licence | Jun 16, 2018
Small clear-glass jar with external screw-thread and ground top. It contained remnants of a yellowish greasy substance like Vaseline or a chest rub. External screw-thread jars were rare at this date, only just coming in. They would have been expensive to make....
by Tom Licence | Mar 17, 2016
Two medicine bottles. Left, light blue-green ‘Palmer’s Bronchial Linctus’. Palmer was a chemist in King’s Lynn. Right, light blue glass, ‘Beetham’s Glycerine and Cucumber’ (for the complexion). Found amid domestic ash and...
