[hollafame]

This might not be in the right forum, im new to this. But i have this antique chemistry sent and didnt know if anyone can give me a but more information on it? Well if there is some!

Ive uploaded some photos to photobucket. Heres the link!

http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/xthatcherx/chemistry%20set/

hope to hear from someone!

the match box is little blue rock things
and the tin is full of peices of paper, with like chemical names on little labels. its full of them. and then container with little strips of paper? maybe its like ph testing strips?

[Arkcon]

Doesn't look like a child's (or other amateur's) chemistry set to me.  More like a very old professionals kit.  It doesn't seem to be a chemistry set of an old apothecary, more like a testing kit of a geologist.

Pic 1.  I see a test tube, some tubing, a thermometer (old, but not ancient) it's big in part because they need to make them big for accuracy.  But at least, it's filled with alcohol, and not mercury.  I don't recognize the coiled material.

Pic. 2.  I see a drying tube packed with desiccant, and some porcelain crucibles.

Pic. 3.  Dropping funnel, another drying tube, tongs, a flask, some filter paper.  I can't really see what's in the box.

Pic. 4.  Another dropping funnel, gas generating (or distilling) flask, a cork (no ground glassware here), an empty U-tube (also for drying), small flask, maybe a tube.

Nice find, anyway.

[hollafame]

Ive added 3 more pictures to the album (of the strips, the blue rocks and then labels)

  And thanks for the information! Ill keep looking for some more. Ive had it for awhile now (it was given to me by a friend) and id be willing to sell it to the right person!

[Arkcon]

I don't recognize the blue rocks.  The labels are typical labels for a kid's chemistry set.  The papers could be litmus paper, they seem to be approximately the right color.  They're not labeled, but that is also typical -- my Gilbert chemistry set just had an envelope of papers -- I was left to guess what was litmus, or sulfide reaction papers, or dye-laden paper.