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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION
~~ CORNER by G eo r 9 e G r iff en hag e n * There are doubtless hundrt,ds of collectors of pharmaceutical antiques throughout the U. ,S., and yet there has been little or no attempt to acquaint them with each other or with the professional world as a whole, save through individual isolated articles appearing from time to time in the pharmaceutical or lay press. Occasionally this column will present the names of some of them and a brief description of private collections which have been brought to our attention. This is one of these occasions.
FREDERICK D. LA SCOFF-New York, N. Y. There is probably no private collection of pharmaceutical antiques which has been written about or pictured more often than the collection housed in the Lascoff Pharmacy, Lexington Avenue and 8~nd Street, New York, N. Y. The Lascoff Pharmacy was founded in 1899 by J. Leon Lascoff, and the collection has been built up over the years. Most of the majolica drug jars are on display in the pharmacy proper, while the balance of the collection, including mortars and pestles, balances, drug chests, old patent medicine bottles, etc., are on display in a small museum on the third floor of the building. The Lascoff Library is said to be the largest individu~lly owned pharmaceutical library in the U. S., comprised of nearly 1,000 volumes.
today fills two walls of his Highland Park, Ill., home with enough to overflow into his basement. He has estimated his collection at about 1,000 items. Within the past few months, Max Warsaw has turned his collecting into a business, known as "Apothecary Antiques." He solicits want lists from collectors who are in the market for either trading or purchasing pharmaceutical antiques. Majolica drug jars are his specialty. The address of "Apothecary Antiques" is 1874 Balsam Road, Highland Park, Ill. DANIEL L. LEYERLE-Springfield, Mo. For 35 years Daniel L. Leyerle of 1166 S. Dollison, Springfield, Mo., has been collecting pharmaceutical antiques. With him, like so many other collectors, it has been a labor of love, because it concerns the profession in which he has been engaged for many years. Daniel Leyerle graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 1910 and has been engaged in some phase of the drug business since then until his retirement from work with Parke, Davis and Company early this year. Included in Leyerle's collection, which is housed in the basement den of his home, are numerous show globes, mortars and pestles, drug containers, and a variety of early pharmaceutical mechanical equipment. WILLIAM E. BROWN-Evansville, Wis.
The Lascoff Pharmacy, New York, N. Y.
MAX M. W ARSA W -Highland Park, Ill. The story goes that about 30 years ago Max M. Warsaw, a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy, set out to buy a new suit and happened to pass an antique shop. That was the end of the suit expedition and the beginning of an interesting collection of pharmaceutical antiques which
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Associate Curator, Division of Medicine and Public Health, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C ., and consultant to the A.PH.A. Museum.
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Few pharmacists have carried their collecting to the extent of setting up in its entirety an apothecary shop restoration. However, William E. Brown of 251 West Church Street, Evansville, Wis., has built a replica of an 1850-1910 pharmacy in the basement of his home. The nucleus of the collection came from the O'Connor Drug Store of Whitewater, Wis., in 1948, and the balance of the collection was obtained from other southern Wisconsin pioneer pharmacies. The collection includes 60 mortars and pestles, brass counter scale" a wide variety of drug containers and patent medicine bottles, cork presses, suppository molds. and an infant nursing bottle collection.
Vol. XV, No. 12
~~ CORNER by G eo r 9 e G r iff en hag e n * There are doubtless hundrt,ds of collectors of pharmaceutical antiques throughout the U. ,S., and yet there has been little or no attempt to acquaint them with each other or with the professional world as a whole, save through individual isolated articles appearing from time to time in the pharmaceutical or lay press. Occasionally this column will present the names of some of them and a brief description of private collections which have been brought to our attention. This is one of these occasions.
FREDERICK D. LA SCOFF-New York, N. Y. There is probably no private collection of pharmaceutical antiques which has been written about or pictured more often than the collection housed in the Lascoff Pharmacy, Lexington Avenue and 8~nd Street, New York, N. Y. The Lascoff Pharmacy was founded in 1899 by J. Leon Lascoff, and the collection has been built up over the years. Most of the majolica drug jars are on display in the pharmacy proper, while the balance of the collection, including mortars and pestles, balances, drug chests, old patent medicine bottles, etc., are on display in a small museum on the third floor of the building. The Lascoff Library is said to be the largest individu~lly owned pharmaceutical library in the U. S., comprised of nearly 1,000 volumes.
today fills two walls of his Highland Park, Ill., home with enough to overflow into his basement. He has estimated his collection at about 1,000 items. Within the past few months, Max Warsaw has turned his collecting into a business, known as "Apothecary Antiques." He solicits want lists from collectors who are in the market for either trading or purchasing pharmaceutical antiques. Majolica drug jars are his specialty. The address of "Apothecary Antiques" is 1874 Balsam Road, Highland Park, Ill. DANIEL L. LEYERLE-Springfield, Mo. For 35 years Daniel L. Leyerle of 1166 S. Dollison, Springfield, Mo., has been collecting pharmaceutical antiques. With him, like so many other collectors, it has been a labor of love, because it concerns the profession in which he has been engaged for many years. Daniel Leyerle graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 1910 and has been engaged in some phase of the drug business since then until his retirement from work with Parke, Davis and Company early this year. Included in Leyerle's collection, which is housed in the basement den of his home, are numerous show globes, mortars and pestles, drug containers, and a variety of early pharmaceutical mechanical equipment. WILLIAM E. BROWN-Evansville, Wis.
The Lascoff Pharmacy, New York, N. Y.
MAX M. W ARSA W -Highland Park, Ill. The story goes that about 30 years ago Max M. Warsaw, a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy, set out to buy a new suit and happened to pass an antique shop. That was the end of the suit expedition and the beginning of an interesting collection of pharmaceutical antiques which
*
Associate Curator, Division of Medicine and Public Health, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C ., and consultant to the A.PH.A. Museum.
744
Few pharmacists have carried their collecting to the extent of setting up in its entirety an apothecary shop restoration. However, William E. Brown of 251 West Church Street, Evansville, Wis., has built a replica of an 1850-1910 pharmacy in the basement of his home. The nucleus of the collection came from the O'Connor Drug Store of Whitewater, Wis., in 1948, and the balance of the collection was obtained from other southern Wisconsin pioneer pharmacies. The collection includes 60 mortars and pestles, brass counter scale" a wide variety of drug containers and patent medicine bottles, cork presses, suppository molds. and an infant nursing bottle collection.
Vol. XV, No. 12