M0013978: English infant feeding bottle, glass covered with leather, 19th century

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Feeding bottle of glass covered with leather, English, 19thC

19th century English glass feeding bottle. The item was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R1519/1938). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

May 1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provide an entry for the item: acc. number R1519/1938 (image 233)

Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.