Inside the lead foil is a Dark Green Velvet lined box which contains 17 old "stopper" type glass bottles. These bottles are held in by what appears to be shoe lace. All but the three center bottles are a brown glass with the three center ones being clear. Each bottle has a label. All bottles are labeled as "One Ounce". Some labels are machine printed while others appear written with an old style ink pen (the type you dip in an ink well).
The labels carry the company names of:
1. Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, St. Louis
and New York
2. Merck & co., New York
3. R. Merck, Darmatadt, Germany
(City spelling is unclear)
4. Hand written bottles have the initials of
"W.E.F." in the lower Right corner
A list of the chemicals are:
(Items 8,9 &10 are quite fluorescent green under Uv light)
1. Uranium Acetate, Free from Sodium
10. Sodium Uranium Sulphate
2. Uranium Oxide, Ammonium
11. Thorium Nitrate
3. Uranium Oxide, Potassium
12. Thorium Oxide
4. Uranium Oxide, Sodium
13. Uranium Carbonate
5. Uranium Sulphate
14. Uranium Chloride
6. Uranium Oxide
15. Uranium Metal, Fused
7. Uranium Nitrate
16. Uran. Bromatum
8. Ammonium Uranium Sulphate
17. Uranium Iodine
9. Potassium Uranium Sulphate
If anyone has any idea as to the use of this and the era it is from
please email me at:
Ron@GotHotRocks.comt