Description
and gorgeously irregular
with a little surface scratching on a couple of the cards and light wear/aging to the brass
notched and carved so as to just extend one side
9 3/4" x 7 5/8""
Scarce and Beautiful Early -Mid 19th Century Treen Apothecary Pill Silverer colorful pigment and gorgeously irregularA very happy find amid a week of searching but not finding a whole lot, this is an early mid 19th century pill silverer. I didn't know its function when I found it, but have learned that these were used by apothecaries, for the purpose of "silvering" pills: they would moisturize pills with acacia and then put them inside one of these, with silver leaf inside, gently rolling the pills around to coat them and make them ready for storage in a bottle. And
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