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2006/61/1-2
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Description
This is a glass thermometer with a paper insert marked with temperature gradations and the inscription ‘Bottling & Dairy Thermometer // Geo. Fowler, Lee & Co. Ltd., Bottling Specialists, Queens Road, Reading’. The thermometer comes in a cardboard tube, which is very worn, open at both ends and fixed with tape. Fowler, Lee and Co. Ltd. was a fruit, vegetable and game bottling appliance manufacturing company based in Reading.
Physical description
1 thermometer and tube: glass, paper, cardboard
Production place
Queen's Road [Reading]
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