WA chemist bottles and collectables
Very rare throat pastilles tin for Kruger & Cooke Perth 1920s
Extremely rare Edward Mayhew dose cup
Rare amber WA chemist bottles Kruger & Cooke Deans Boans Sagar and Tilly
MacGregor Chemist Beverley
In January 1833, George Shenton arrived on the ship Cygnet to the Western Australia colony, and so became Perth’s first pharmacist. During the early 1800s pharmaceutical training was rather random, yet Shenton had documentary evidence of having served an apprenticeship at one of the first pharmacies in Portsea. It is likely he was encouraged to travel to the colonies by his cousin William Shenton who arrived to the Swan River Colony in 1829.
There is some confusion as to where Shenton opened his first pharmacy. The Perth Gazette of May 1838 shows a Hay St address, however it is accepted that he first operated from a shop in William St. With a population of just 400 in Perth things would have been tough for Shenton. However he was an astute business man and quickly became involved in a range of businesses, including the West Australian Bank, the timber trade and wheat farming. His “Chemist and Druggist” business was more like a department store, and his knowledge and qualification made him a highly respected member of the Colony.
The collection gallery of WA chemist bottles and other items is an important record of many of the early chemists who were instrumental in the development of the industry in this state into what it is today.
Western Australian pot lids, Trouchet’s Birch’s Sargent Freeman Deans and Shadwicks
Rare green Tilly and Tilly Richards Perth
Tilly operated in Hay St Perth
Iris Brand chemist bottles (George Armstrong) from the Iris Drug Co Perth
WA Apothecaries Perth opened by H.C. Armstrong on Hay St in 1894
Sands Hay St Perth 1900s and Sands Osbourne partnership commenced around 1910
Trouchet anti-smoke mixture an early quit smoking product.
WAs rarest blue chemist, the Birch & Webster partnership started in 1891 on High St Fremantle.
Couple of huge 16oz chemists. WA Apothecaries and amber Boans Perth
Arabian Hair Renewer WA Apothecaries
Box with contents for Kelly Kalgoorlie
Sargents Pharmacy York opened in 1886. The Owl trademark was used on bottles and their eye ointment pot lid.
Rare advertising matches for WA Apothecaries Perth
Pill box for Boans Pharmacy Perth
Glass vial with original box for Southees chemist Subiaco
Tin of throat pastilles a generic product made by for chemists, and distributed via WA branch of Pharmacy Guild.
Pill box for Edmund Dean Co Perth
Pill box for WA Apothecaries
Early throat pastilles tin for WA Apothecaries.
Rare throat pastilles tin for Kruger & Cooke Hay St Perth
Box of Bickfords Worm Powders 1920-30s
Edward Gilbert Katanning 1904-1930 Rare mortar and pestle pictorial bottle.
Edward Gilbert Katanning
Alfred Golder operated in Greenbushes from 1902-22, a rare country chemist bottle.
Athol Greentree operated in Meekatharra from 1910-13, another hard to get chemist bottle.
WA Apothecaries cough mixture and Anodyne liniment bottles.
Kruger and Cooke amber chemist bottle Hay St Perth
Service medal WW1 for Edward Sagar Cottesloe.
Two vary rare Boulder Block chemists.
Practised in Fitzgerald St in 1912 before enlisting in the Aust. Expeditionary Force.
Herbert Terry North Fremantle operated for 20 years from the early 1900
F. Carswell Farrant operated in Coliie from around 1905 until his death in 1918.
Saxon Lee Antikoff bottle. Lee operated in Boulder City for nearly 20 years.
John Boileau operated in Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Boulder and Broad Arrow.
Saxon Lee Boulder City
Boileau Kalgoorlie
Hawkins operated in Hannan's St Kalgoorlie. Scarce pictorial chemist.
Alex Trouchet Perth and Kalgoorlie
Trouchet's labelled bottle Reliable Remedies
Harry Sandercock opened a pharmacy in Rokeby Rd in 1913.
Percy Smith Bignell purchased Richard Kirton's Busselton business in 1899
Nice labelled WA Apothecaries Perth bottle
Newlands Chapman operated in Gerladton from 1912
Greville operated in Geraldton until around 1920. He called his business "Red Cross Pharmacy"
Tilly Perth
Tilly Perth
Tilly and Richards operated in partnership in Perth and Kalgoorlie during the 1910s
Advertising perfume calendars
