M0013728: Glass feeding bottles, 18th-19th century

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Glass feeding bottles, late 18thC-19thC

Photograph of two infant feeding bottles of the type used in Germany during the latter part of the 18th and first three-quarters of the 19th century. The one of the left is cut glass with a silver mouthpiece. The one of the right has an etched design of the sacred monogram and pewter mouthpiece. The items were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1939 (accession numbers R968/1939 and R915/1939)

October 1954

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: acc. number R915/1939 (image 226) and acc. number R968/1939 (image 6)

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.