Dimensions (cm): 32 x 21 x 36

Year: 1850

A Victorian mahogany apothecary chemist's traveling Cabinet for the apothecary James Dunn, of rectangular form with a brass flush carrying handle to the top, the front with two hinged doors opening to reveal a fully fitted interior with three small lidded drawers labelled 'Boracic Acid', 'Bicarbonate of Soda' and 'Purified Epsom Salts', all retaining their contents, over two graduated long drawers fitted with knife, tweezers, hand scales, measuring glass, glass pourer, pestle and mortar and various ointments, all original.
The top row and doors fitted with 23 original glass bottles, all retaining some or all of original contents intact to counter a wide variety of ailments, all labelled, some with the label for the Apothecary James Dunn, the reverse with a secret sliding compartment housing a further five jars.

An Apothecary is a historical name for a medical professional who formulated and dispensed medicaments to physicians, surgeons and patients, a role now served by a pharmacist. In addition, the apothecary offered general medical advice and a range of services which are now performed by other specialist pratitioners, such as surgery and midwifery. Apothecaries often operated through a retail shop which, in addition to ingredients for medicines, sold tobacco and patent medicines.
Our Cabinet would have seen daily use in such a shop and was also designed to be taken out of the shop, packed with a range of different potions and concoctions to best serve the apothecary's customers. As is indicated by the labels on the bottles, James Dunn's shop was in Victoria Street, Newton-Stewart, which lies in South West Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway. It is extremely rare to find such a cabinet with all its original contents in such pristine condition.

Bar Code: 10053