About Apothecary Poison Label
This is the dangerous-medicine aesthetic of the 19th-century pharmacy: a deep cobalt-blue bottle, ribbed and molded so a druggist could feel its poison by touch in lamplight, wearing a serif-framed paper label of Latin names. Every surface warns. The glass is dark, the rules are doubled, the skull is embossed. It treats safety as ornament — beauty pressed into the service of fear.
- Origin
- Western Europe
- Era
- pre-1900 (late Victorian); embossed poison-ware peak ~1870–1899
- Key figures
- Victorian dispensing chemists · druggists · poison-bottle glassmakers
- Movements
- Victorian pharmaceutical labelling · embossed poison-bottle safety design
Apothecary Poison Label design spec
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UnifrakturMaguntiaHeadings
IM Fell English SCBody
Special EliteMono
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