Date:1870 - 1890 (c.)
Description:Plaster spreader; iron head with varnished wood handle. Plasters were made by the pharmacist for external treatments. Ingredients would be mixed with a base of lead plaster, or a mixture of resin and soap. This iron would be heated to spread the mixture on peices of leather, calico or silk cut to the required size and shape. When warm the mixture would stick to the skin and thenm become solid when it cooled. From the Staffordshire County Museum collection. Formerly part of the collection of Mr. Ewart Jones of Newbridge Pharmacy, Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton, where he worked from the late 1950s until the mid 1980s.
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Donor ref:97.010.0052 (37/25470)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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