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Actions	Set of measures Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberHC.LC.1.10 TitleSet of measures CreatorMaw & Sons (Manufacturer)‎ DescriptionTwo graduated glass measures, two medicine bottles and a collapsable cup belonging to William Laidlaw Purves. Possibly used during his 1860s service as a surgeon with the Whaling Fleet off Iceland and the Greenland Banks. The bottle in the wooden turned case was made by Allen, Hanbury's & Co. and may have contained amber in chloroform. There is a brown, sweet-smelling remnant in the bottle. The other bottle is empty and unmarked, but is held in an unusual metal twisted case. The set of glassware by S. Maw, Son & Sons, includes a larger medicine glass, with graduations in table/teaspoons and a minim measure with graduations in 'drops', 5 to 60. Production placeLondon Production date c. 1860 Production periodNineteenth century, mid Object nameMeasures Object categoryINSTRUMENT MaterialSteel, Glass, Wood, Leather Dimensions Bottle/wood case Height: 11 cm Diameter: 6 cm Bottle/metal case Height: 10.5 cm Diameter: 3.8 cm Measures Large Height: 6.5 cm Diameter: 5.2 cm Measures small Height: 4.7 cm Diameter: 2 cm Collapsable cup Height: 6 cm Diameter: 5.5 cm

Object numberHC.LC.1.10

TitleSet of measures

CreatorMaw & Sons (Manufacturer)‎

DescriptionTwo graduated glass measures, two medicine bottles and a collapsable cup belonging to William Laidlaw Purves. Possibly used during his 1860s service as a surgeon with the Whaling Fleet off Iceland and the Greenland Banks. The bottle in the wooden turned case was made by Allen, Hanbury's & Co. and may have contained amber in chloroform. There is a brown, sweet-smelling remnant in the bottle. The other bottle is empty and unmarked, but is held in an unusual metal twisted case. The set of glassware by S. Maw, Son & Sons, includes a larger medicine glass, with graduations in table/teaspoons and a minim measure with graduations in 'drops', 5 to 60.

Production placeLondon

Production date c. 1860

Production periodNineteenth century, mid

Object nameMeasures

Object categoryINSTRUMENT

MaterialSteel, Glass, Wood, Leather

Dimensions

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