Scarce and Beautiful Early -Mid 19th Century Treen Apothecary Pill Silverer antique herbarium Of course they are so

Of course they are so beautiful that they are also perfectly wonderful just to keep at home

and the approach to early education they embody

One certainly wonders what all happened that year in the life of the Frank Ellis who drew this in 1864--during the Civil War

5 1/16" x 4" tape mounted to thin white paper with perforated edges

as the newspaper on the underside features transcription of a senate debate relating to whether

Scarce and Beautiful Early -Mid 19th Century Treen Apothecary Pill Silverer antique herbarium Of course they are soA 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