How many come up for sale each year?

Around nine reach the market in a year on Sellingantiques, and forty different dealers have listed one, so no single dealer dominates the category. The archive runs to 83 listings in total, which is enough to show what the standard form looks like without making any one variant common.

What wood are they usually made from?

Mahogany is named in a third of all titles, so it is the timber you will meet most. It covers everything from small boxes to full travelling cabinets. Rosewood with brass binding appears at the upper end. Boxwood and lignum vitae turn up only on the turned smalls, and one hand-painted bentwood storage box shows the form wasn't always a cased hardwood box.

Do they still have their bottles?

Many are offered with some or all of their original glass, and titles that advertise contents cluster at the top of the range. Others are sold empty, and at least one pair of listings makes the distinction explicit in the title. The presence of bottles, phials and scales is the single clearest divider in the category.

Are apothecary boxes marked with a maker's name?

A scan of these listings for maker and retailer names returned nothing, so no firm or chemist runs through the category as a recurring presence. What does appear is labelling of a different kind. One box carries a gilt panel inscribed MAG: SULPH, and one rosewood example is described as named and fitted.

What does a campaign apothecary box mean?

It means made for travel or military use: compact, often brass bound at the corners, sometimes fitted with a drawer beneath the bottle tray. Campaign, military and travelling examples recur throughout the archive and account for most of the top of the range. Sampled titles include George III travelling cabinets and a Regency fitted mahogany military box.

Why are so many just dated 19th century?

Because that is how dealers bracket them. "19th Century" is the largest group in the dated field, with 32 listings, and it is a broad bracket rather than a year. Only 21 of the 83 listings carry a clean year, and those run from 1750 to 1890. Georgian, Victorian and Regency are style labels doing similar work, and decade tags are thin and scattered.

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A lockable wooden case fitted with drawers, compartments and bottle recesses, made to hold a household's, a ship's or a physician's stock of medicines, scales and dispensing kit in one place.

Extraordinary Polished Wood Apothecary’s Display Box

19th century

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Extraordinary Polished Wood Apothecary’s Display Box

From David Griffith Antiques

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Regency Mahogany Fitted Apothecary’s Box

19th century

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Regency Mahogany Fitted Apothecary’s Box

From W.R. Harvey & Co. (Antiques) Ltd

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19th century

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Apothecary Box

From Athey Antiques

£650

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19th century

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A Decorative 19th Century Hand Painted Bentwood Apothecary Storage Box

From Minerva Antiques Ltd

£360

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