Treasures of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Collections

摘要

One of the most important objects in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's museum collections is the earliest known delftware drug jar bearing a date.On 10 October 1953,Ernest Saville Peck,a pharmacist from Cambridge and a past president of the Society,wrote to Agnes Lothian,the Society's librarian,who was also in charge of the museum.Mr Peck had been contacted by the Reverend H.R.Willimot of Langport,Somerset,who sought his opinion about a large tin-glazed drug jar dated 1647 that he was planning to donate to a local museum.