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Set of measures

HC.LC.1.10

Maw & Sons (Manufacturer)

Two graduated glass measures, two medicine bottles and a collapsable cup belonging to William Laidlaw Purves. Possibly used during his 1860s service as a surgeon with the Whaling Fleet off Iceland and the Greenland Banks. The bottle in the wooden turned case was made by Allen, Hanbury's & Co. and may have contained amber in chloroform. There is a brown, sweet-smelling remnant in the bottle. The other bottle is empty and unmarked, but is held in an unusual metal twisted case. The set of glassware by S. Maw, Son & Sons, includes a larger medicine glass, with graduations in table/teaspoons and a minim measure with graduations in 'drops', 5 to 60.

Nineteenth century, mid