Bottle - Chemist

Historical information

A bottle holding medication or poison. Labelling is difficult to read.

Significance

Historical: Interpretation and comparison to modern day containers.

Physical description

Amber glass bottle with small round neck and screw plastic lid. The back is flat and long. The other 2 sides are equal and plain and equal with the front, which is embossed with 'not to be taken'. the other two planes of the bottle are embossed with a dotted lattice pattern.
So embossed as follows: plain, latticed, 'not to be taken', latticed, plain.

Inscriptions & markings

Embossed: - Lattice design is of dots. Not to be taken is at front. Base: G above M under 3 lines / F1092 / M.
On wide flat back section at bottom is 6.

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