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patent medicine

This is an unopened medicine oil which is made in China. The brand is Yang Gheng Brand. The top seal states the ingredients of the oil. The lower seal is the name of the oil. The glass bottle is transparent. The oil is brown. There are some paper…

Patent medicine

Name of the medicine: Po Chai Shui A glass bottle with a cork. The cork is sealed by wax. The seal is broken. There is a prescription paper wrapped the bottle. The paper has a large residue which seems from permeating oil and the residue makes the…

Patent medicine

A metal box and many red pills in it. The metal box originally should have been plated with gold or copper. Now the golden plate is almost totally faded except the two pictures' outline on the top and bottom and the surface inside the cap. There are…

Medicinal bottle

A glass bottle with a black screw cap and a paper label. The glass bottle has embossed scales on the back side and embossed numbers and marks on the bottom. Near the neck and opening partm there are black residues on it. The black cap is rusty in its…

Patent medicine

A two parts hardboard box ( L: 1.81" W: 1.81" H: 1") with a small wooden bottle in it. 1997.43.12A: The box lid. The outer surface of the lid is covered purple wefts and red supplementary wefts. On the top of the lid is a red label which has names of…

Medicine

1997.43.13A A package box (L: 2.13" W: 2" H: 2.4") made of hardboard. The outer surface is golden color. There are two product marks on two sides and two directions written in English and Korean on the other two sides. Inside the bow there is another…

Medicinal tea cake

1997.43.14A (Tea cake); 1997.43.14D( prescription L: 6.5" W:5.51") A tea cake wrapped with paper(prescription). The tea cake is flaking apart and is powdering. The color of tea is dark brown. The wrapped paper is yellowed and there is a main tear…

Box of medicinal package

A faded green paper box with a broken orange label. This box can be opened from bottom side. Originally the label also sealed the box opening but now the label is torn in the box opening area. The label did not cut along the black print's frame so…

Patent medicine

A small paper wrapped cylinder. The wrapped paper is yellowed and on the both ends the paper is broken. Inside the wrapped paper itseems the have a rolled prescription and a bottle but they cannot be taken out. This medicine is pill-shaped for…

Medicine set

1997.43.17Ai (as folding package: L: 3.42" W: 2.36"; as unfolding paper: L: 7.28" W: 7.28") A two sides printed paper wrapped with a tear-drop shaped glass bottle. The outside of the paper is printed in brown. The medicine is from Qing dynasty Guang…