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Bags, Medical Saddle

Brown leather saddle bags used by Dr. O.D. Slaughter, who moved from Little Rock to the Oxford Bend near Habberton, Arkansas, around 1865 and practiced medicine there until the late 1880s. The bags contain seven bottles used to carry medicine.

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Key

Homemade key.

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Scale, Coin

Brass coin scale.

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Bottle, Apothecary

Label is partially cracked off. V.Iris R. remains. Wide mouth apothecary glass jar, scalloped glass stopper. Ground glass on interior of jar neck and base of stopper. Lable panel with printed glass label. 1 1/4 of label broken off. Capacity 500 ml.

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Bottle, Apothecary (Bismuth Subnitrate)

Label: Bismuth Subnitrate.
Standard chemical storage jar with large mouth. Glass stopper with ground glass at base. Ground glass also on interior of neck of jar. Handwritten gummed label. 150 mL cap.

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Bottle, Apothecary

Narrow mouth standard chemical storage jar. Glass stopper. Ground glass on interior of jar neck and base of stopper. No label. Residue present. 1 L.

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Clamp

Clamp consisting of two opposing screws going through two blocks.

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Projectile

Iron, shell, James Type I for 14-pound rifled James cannon. Surface pitted with rust. Reportedly found near the National Cemetery in Fayetteville, AR. Patented by Charles T. James, 22 Feb 1856, patent #14,315.

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Flask, Powder

Gunpowder flask homemade from a gourd. Has piece of rawhide for a stopper. Letters R A T inscribed on side.

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Sword

Knuckle-bow and shell are of one piece with a down-turned quillon. Pommel is separate from knuckle-bow. Grip is made of wood. A fuller extends the full length of the blade and the blade has a false edge.

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