Cassia Flask
notes: label: Description
content: A cassia flask (or cassia oil flask) is a small glass container with graduated neck, used to assay the oils in cassia bark and similar substances. Schimmel & Co., introduced the form in 1890.
label: Description
content: Spahn & Buttner was a pharmaceutical manufacturing company, established in Leipzig in 1829. By the 1870s, now in the hands of the Fritsche family, the firm was trading as Schimmel & Co., and specializing in essential oils. It moved to the nearby town of Militz in 1900, and vastly expanded its product range.
label: Description
content: Ref: E. Gildemeister and Fr. Hoffmann, The Volatile Oils (Milwaukee, 1900), p. 388. This book was written under the auspices of Schimmel & Co.
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Thomas, Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents (Philadelphia, 1921), p. 298.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of George Washington University, School of Pharmacy; Accession 259201 (1964)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11021
label: catalog number
content: M-11021
label: accession number
content: 259201
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Flask, Cassia
label: Object Name
content: Cassia Flask
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 7/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 20.0025 cm x 6.0325 cm x 6.0325 cm