Two Late 19thC Glass Apothecary Bottles with Painted Gold Banners, One for Sodium Sulphate sub-Antiques Folk art provides an excellent

Folk art provides an excellent insight into the everyday life of ordinary people in times of old

allowing each photograph to tell its own story

though our researches into identifying the arms have proved inconclusive

so there is a fairground connection

If ever a cautionary tale was needed for borrowing beyond one's means

Two Late 19thC Glass Apothecary Bottles with Painted Gold Banners, One for Sodium Sulphate sub-Antiques Folk art provides an excellentOrigin: English Period: Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1875 Circumference: 11 inches Height: 9 inches Both of good proportions bearing original, and, highly individual stoppers. Hand painted in onyx on gold crested banners. The first would have carried Sodium Sulphate, the very well preserved label clearly reading; SOD: SULPH:. Sodium sulphate is the sodium salt of sulphuric acid. Anhydrous, it is a white crystalline solid of formula