Found by Herbert Olier, this medical tin meas. 4” high and 2” wide.  The pewter spout meas. .50”.  Japanned tin with nearly all the original japanning remaining on three sides.  One side the original medicine has stained the outside from being used.  Most of the finish is missing.  These types of medical tins were used in the field hospitals and housed in the large U.S. Medical Pannier or the smallest rare Model 1863 field surgeon’s medical case. This item identified on John Geiselman’s museum listing. Nice relic of the Gettysburg Battlefield with medical association. Previously sold as item R10913.

The Horse Soldier is pleased to offer a number of items from the John P. Geiselman collection, a collection that was on display for many years at the Geiselman Country Store Museum on Barlow - Two Taverns Road. Geiselman began his collecting as a child in the early 1920s, and during the pre-World II period had access to artifacts that had been purchased earlier at the estate sales of the Trostle, Rogers, Rose, Weikert, and Wentz farms - local properties that figured prominently in the battle and its aftermath. During this period he had access as well to the Hill , Plank, and Stewart collections, and was able to acquire other items that had been sold from turn-of-the-century relics establishments such as the Danner, Ziegler, and Oak Ridge Museums. Furthermore, Geiselman carefully documented most artifacts, and collectors perusing the list will be able to note, in many instances, not only the source of the relic and the date of its recovery, but also the part of the battlefield from which it came. In other words, his collection is the last major grouping of Gettysburg artifacts assembled and documented by a local resident.

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