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[Calling card case]

With five types of cards for addresses including Gloucester Gate, The Athanaeum and The Lotus Club
This item was previously on display in Wellcome Collection's "Medicine Man" gallery until October 2020.

Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)

OBJECTS

HSW objects

['First money ever earned by Sir Henry Wellcome']

[Pocket sized New Testament]

[Metal container and suppository moulds]

'Suppositories and bougies improved shape'

[Bougie and suppository]

Henry S. Wellcome's gold signet ring

Impressions of two Gebel Moya seals

'Map of Africa. Impression of Stanley seal'

Plaster mask of Henry Wellcome

[RC Sudlow's pocket watch]

[RC Sudlow medallion]

'Top spar of "Dahabeah Colombia" broken near Enfu early morning 21 Feb 1901'

'Mrs Wellcome's gold curb watch bracelet with monogram GMSB'

[Silk evening bags]

'Approximately 562 Gebel Moya bookplates'

[Cleft stick, Gebel Moya]

[Gebel Moya pendant]

[Gebel Moya printing dies]

[Gebel Moya bookplate and impressions of 2 seals]

'Gavel used in the laying of the cornerstone ceremony WRI'

'Level used in the laying of the cornerstone ceremony, WRI'

'Handles of bronze casket deposited in corner stone of the WRI'

[Cigarette lighter]

[Comb]

[Spectacles in case]

[Keys]

'From Sir Henry's pockets 12.40 am 25 July 1936 [at death]'

[Casket for HSW's ashes]

'List of articles'

[Calling card case]

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