A Rare 19thC Painted & Gilded Cast Iron Caduceus Apothecarist’s Trade Sign c.1880 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage They were drab by modern

They were drab by modern standards

5 inches diameter  (leader end) or 4

At the centre of the stall a long arm span horizontally around the inner perimeter of the circle and when the arm stopped the person to which its end pointed was entitled to a prize

they combined with Houghtons Ltd

The name of phosphorus has a Greek origin meaning "it possesses brilliance" due to its property of shining in the darkness when exposed to the air

A Rare 19thC Painted & Gilded Cast Iron Caduceus Apothecarist’s Trade Sign c.1880 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage They were drab by modernOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1870 80Width: 11Depth: 0. 75Height: 18The scarce and well cast iron trade shop sign, in the form of the Caduceus, being a short staff entwined by two serpents and surmounted by wings and terminating to a pommel end, showing several layers of paint, a black painted surface over an earlier green and then a gilded base, the whole hailing from a Victorian apothecary shop of nineteenth