Scarce and Beautiful Early -Mid 19th Century Treen Apothecary Pill Silverer antique herbarium I don't buy a lot

I don't buy a lot via instagram as it seems most of you are looking at the same instagram dealers as I am

and perhaps  just the right thing to live within a Joseph Cornell sort of boxed construction

where one might see all sorts of things in them

perfect grainy backdrop

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

Scarce and Beautiful Early -Mid 19th Century Treen Apothecary Pill Silverer antique herbarium I don't buy a lotA 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