Scarce and Beautiful Early -Mid 19th Century Treen Apothecary Pill Silverer working decoy probably as a train station

probably as a train station shelter or control station

Hand-painted

and a little research leads me to the believe with quite a bit of confidence that the H

4 1/2" l x 3 1/2" t

To me it's quite a warm and tender thing

Scarce and Beautiful Early -Mid 19th Century Treen Apothecary Pill Silverer working decoy probably as a train stationA 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