A Fine Pair of c.1870s Glass Apothecary Bottles for Bismuth & Potassium sub-Antiques Furniture making using fish skin

Furniture making using fish skin was popular especially in France during the Art Deco period

An unlikely find a century on

There is one tiny triangle of glass that has come free

We think it deserves another outing…

and maps and globes are usually presented in other forms

A Fine Pair of c.1870s Glass Apothecary Bottles for Bismuth & Potassium sub-Antiques Furniture making using fish skinOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Wilfred Harris M. P. S. Dispensing Chemist, Bournemouth, UK Date: c. 1870 Base Diameter: 3 inches Height: 8 inches (each) The large clear glass bottles having the original multi faceted cut stoppers with shield shaped painted labels in black lettering on a gold leaf ground the Latin reading BISMUTH TROCH and POT: CHLOR TROCH both with frosted necks and surviving from the third quarter of