Arts: Priceless Items?

Art collectors took notice last week when Dr. Charles Herbert La Wall, able dean of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, said that old-fashioned drugstores' shelf-ware, mortars & pestles, glass window globes filled with red-& blue-colored water, had been largely destroyed, predicted that they would be listed as "almost priceless collectors' items of the next century."

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