Paper in manufactures : The gold medal, or fifty guineas, being the premium offered for preparing the greatest quantity, not less than twenty pounds weight, of opium, ... was this Session adjudged to Mr. Thomas Jones, of Fish-Street-Hill, ...

  • Jones, Thomas, of Fish-Street-Hill, London.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Paper in manufactures : The gold medal, or fifty guineas, being the premium offered for preparing the greatest quantity, not less than twenty pounds weight, of opium, ... was this Session adjudged to Mr. Thomas Jones, of Fish-Street-Hill, ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I have this clay ascertained the weight of a parcel of Opium, collected by Mr. Thomas Jones, of Fish-Street-Hill, from his plantation of Poppies at Enfield, and find that it amounts to twenty-one pounds seven ounces. I conceive, from its pungent and bit¬ ter taste, that it is equal to the best Opium we receive from Turkey, with the advantage of its exceeding in purity any parcel of this drug I have ever seen imported from thence. I cannot but remark the ingenuity of the imitation of its form, which resembles many of the pieces we are accustomed to receive it in from the Levant. I am, Sir, Your most obedient servant, John Horner. Bucklers bury j February 24, 1800. 4 Mr. Charles Taylor. i
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