Mahogany medicine chest Reece & Co., London, England, early 19th century With brass pull; containing glass bottles and drawers, many retaining labels for various medicinal herbs and substances and some retaining ingredients; includes mortar and pestle; one drawer with some original labels for Reece & Co., inscribed "The Family and Sea Dispensaries and Chemical Mineralogical & Veterinary Chests Adapted to all Climates/Prepared by Reece & Co. Pharmaceutical and Experimental Chemists Henrietta Street, Covent Garden"; another drawer retaining old envelope, inscribed "Thos. Healy Urbanna Va".
H: 18 in.
PROVENANCE:Possibly owned by Thomas Healy of Urbanna, Virginia.
Pittsburgh Family Collection.