M0011939: Photograph of a wooded drug or spice mill from the 18th century

Previous title, replaced May 2022: Drug Mill; 18th century

Photograph of an 18th century square wooden-cased drug or spice mill. The mill was purchased for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1951 but is no longer held by Wellcome Collection.

1951

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the inventory card and the accession register which provide detailed entries for this item (accession number R77/1951).

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.