A Rare 19thC Painted & Gilded Cast Iron Caduceus Apothecarist’s Trade Sign c.1880 poa-item but from a dressmaking studio

but from a dressmaking studio in her father’s house established a company making felt toys

to celebrate Titanic and her links with Belfast

Arguably worth more as artefacts than as functional counters

The overall colour and finish is not 100% perfectly consistent but we find this appealing and it feels lived in without being over restored

The mount in the frame does suffer from some spotting as shown but we think this serves well in a decorative sense

A Rare 19thC Painted & Gilded Cast Iron Caduceus Apothecarist’s Trade Sign c.1880 poa-item but from a dressmaking studioOrigin: 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