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Mammy's Favorite Coffee tin ~ C.D. Kenny & Co. ~ early 1900's
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Leech crawling on the lid of the leech jar at the Apothecary Shop. Devices used for the medical practice of bleeding are in the foreground. 18th Century scene at historic Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia. Photo by David M. Doody.
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Rare 19th Century Treenware Beehive Form Sewing String Holder/Box
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19 century Vinaigrette. These beauties held vinegar-soaked sponges so that when you walked out of your house onto the unspeakable filth of the 18th and 19th century streets...if you felt faint you could hold this up to your nose to block out the odor
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The 1881 envelope mourning ring showing how it opened to allow hair to be put inside as a keepsake.
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A Louis XV Style Ormolu Striking Elephant Clock France c1880
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The Lancaster Watch Camera was patented in October 1886 and made until 1890. Such tiny cameras were the forerunners for the ‘spy’ camera – a mechanism disguised as a different object.
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Leaded Glass and Bronze Table Lamp with blown glass base, circa 1905
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you could buy this medicine between 1890 and 1910 without prescription
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Victorian Sterling-Silver Flexible Fish Snuff Holder
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art deco perfume bottle perfect for the dressing table
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Zsolnay Art Nouveau Pewter Mounted Ceramic Vase ca. 1900
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Tea Chest, 1740-1770, made in France -- Japanned wood and tinned iron with pink silk lining (Victoria & Albert Museum)
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Nona Clark I learned recently that heroin was claimed to be non-addictive, and when doctors discovered it was addictive and it became illegal, the company had to come up with a new pain killer. That's when bayer aspirin came to be the replacement for heroin! LOL look at the name on this bottle!