Scarce and Beautiful Early -Mid 19th Century Treen Apothecary Pill Silverer colorful pigment with a little surface scratching

with a little surface scratching on a couple of the cards and light wear/aging to the brass

The second of two of these I found together

I really love its squatness and its oddness and the significant love and labor invested in making it

and gorgeously irregular

and really think they are quite exquisite

Scarce and Beautiful Early -Mid 19th Century Treen Apothecary Pill Silverer colorful pigment with a little surface scratchingA 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