Whitall Tatum apothecary bottles

[woody]

I have a set of 15 whitall tatum apothecary bottles that came out of a basement of a drug store Tilton, NH.
These date around 1880-1890, I believe.

 

[woody]

As seen in Cecil Munseys bottle book.

 

[woody]

Ground letters.

 

[woody]

Some with contents.

 

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[georgeoj]

WOW! That is a very nice set of apothecarys and a great find.
George[8D]

 

[Plumbata]

The contents of that amber Silver Nitrate are worth a decent bit, since it is over 60% silver by weight. Are the crystals somewhat dense?

If you want to do an awesome experiment, and make yourself a pretty tree of presently valuable silver, dissolve that stuff, make a tree framework out of copper wire, immerse the copper in the AgNO3 solution, let it sit for a while and then you will have this:

A silver tree! Who doesn't want one of these? [8D]

Nice bottles, I would like to get a set of those and similar bottles for my (ideally oldschool) recreational laboratory.

 

[woody]

ORIGINAL: Plumbata

The contents of that amber Silver Nitrate are worth a decent bit, since it is over 60% silver by weight. Are the crystals somewhat dense?

If you want to do an awesome experiment, and make yourself a pretty tree of presently valuable silver, dissolve that stuff, make a tree framework out of copper wire, immerse the copper in the AgNO3 solution, let it sit for a while and then you will have this:

A silver tree! Who doesn't want one of these? [8D]

Nice bottles, I would like to get a set of those and similar bottles for my (ideally oldschool) recreational laboratory.

That particular jar is empty, Steve. []