ITHACA
"an open shammy purse displaying coins, mostly copper, and a phial of aromatic (violet) comfits. On the middle shelf a chipped eggcup containing pepper, a drum of table salt, four conglomerated black olives in oleaginous paper, an empty pot of Plumtree's potted meat," (U17.301)
'Shammy' or chamois is a soft pliable leather, traditionally made from the skin of the chamois antelope.
