Bottle for mercury
Date
Circa 1900
Description
Typical turned box wood bottle in three pieces, cap, neck (removable for filling), and base. Has screwed joints. Bottle used for holding and dispensing drops of mercury for amalgam fillings. As mercury reacts with most metals and at that time it was difficult to make leak proof dropper bottles of glass that could dispense mercury drop by drop, use was made of wood. Boxwood could be turned, drilled and threaded. Joints were very easily made leak proof by turning or cutting threads on the parts.
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