A Very Rare Late 19thC Glass Apothecary Poison Bottle of James Atkinson, Old Bond St. London

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A Very Rare Late 19thC Glass Apothecary Poison Bottle of James Atkinson, Old Bond St. LondonOrigin: English Period: Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1885 Circumference: 9 inches Height: 9 inches Perfectly proportioned, the poison bottle of slender cylindrical form etched with the makers name and complete with the original claret red label having a ruled ebony border almost wholly intact reading POISON. The beautifully spherical stopper is currently jammed shut but with the application of warm water one may be able to release

Like the horns of an angry bull

two others are 3" in length

Examples such as this

of World War I

It was issued to publicans for the express use of advertising Jameson’s in public houses

Both of good proportions bearing original

it is obtained from the ore by heating until sufficiently mobile to separate from its earthy matter

The backs are beautifully hand-carved

It was a place alive with "monsters" and it was a place where learned pigs mixed with giants and dwarfs and where most people saw "exotic" animals for the first time

The wartime evacuation was the largest and most concentrated mass movement of people Britain had ever seen

Width: 40cms / 1

then shaken with talc and filtered

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