Featured in this lot is an Antique Arizona Frontier Pharmacist Pill Bottle Leather Case, Bisbee, Arizona Territory, circa late 1890s. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, Arizona. The pill case was owned by Pharmacist Charles Philip Hart, son of famous Old West Tombstone gunsmith, S. L. Hart. Also included in Charles personal wood stamp. Samuel Lombard Hart (1830-1893) was a very highly regarded and skilled gunsmith over his ten years in Tombstone. It has been said that the legacy of S. L. Hart as gunsmith to the cowboys, gamblers, lawmen, and gunfighters of Tombstone cannot be over estimated. Today a firearm with the "S.L. Hart" stamp is almost priceless. Later in 1890, S. L. Hart and his family moved to Tucson, probably to be nearer better medical facilities; Hart had been diagnosed with cancer. Charles eventually moved to become to a pharmacist in Bisbee, Arizona. The leather pill bottle case contains 24 cork sealed glass vials, some still containing pills. Original handwritten labels and corks attached to each vial. Titles on labels include ergotin, cocaine, acetanilid, morphine, mercury. Remedies used in the 19th century included both quack potions to legitimate treatments, and some helped enlighten the field of science down to this day. Common medicines used in 1800s include: painkillers such as opium, morphine, phenacetin, and acetanilide, cocaine to relieve toothaches or oral pains, and mercury to treat venereal diseases, primarily syphilis. Included Tombstone Western Heritage Museum label reads, "PILL CASE used by CHARLES PHILIP HART who was a pharmacist in Bisbee in the late 1890's," museum code, "V-152". Stamp has museum code, "V-156". Vials are intact, no damage noted. Leather wrapped cloth bound case is in poor condition, separation at covers, loss of leather. Stamp is in good condition. Vials measure 3.25"L on average, case is 3"W x 7.625"L x 1.5"D. Stamp is 1.25"W x 1.25"L. Combined weight is 12oz.