Franchise, apothecary
date: label: date made
content: 1791
notes: label: Description
content: A franchise is a legal document issued by a government or a sovereign granting the right to carry out commercial activities. In Germany franchises were granted to individuals for the privilege of purchasing or inheriting an apothecary, or the exclusive rights to sell a medicinal product within a city or town.
label: Description
content: This franchise is hand written in gothic script and elaborately decorated. It is twenty-two pages long and has a red wax seal housed in a round carved wooden box. It was issued and signed in Vienna on 20 August 1791, by the German Emperor Leopold II. George Urdang's entry in <i>The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy Catalogue</i> states "In this document, the Emperor confirms an earlier franchise for the production and sale of Trusinger's Healing Plaster, originally granted by Emperor Ferdinand III..."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0664.0082
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 829
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0082
objectType: label: Object Name
content: franchise
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wax (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: parchment (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 1/8 in x 17 in x 13 7/8 in; .3175 cm x 43.18 cm x 35.2425 cm
label: Measurements
content: franchise: 35.5 cm x 26.2 cm x 2.8 cm; 14 in x 10 5/16 in x 1 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: case for seal: 3.3 cm x 16.3 cm; 1 5/16 in x 6 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: object box: 5.5 cm x 49.3 cm x 37 13/16 in; 2 3/16 in x 19 7/16 in x 96.012 cm