A Rare 19thC Painted & Gilded Cast Iron Caduceus Apothecarist’s Trade Sign c.1880 sub-Religion & Relics These pictures incorporated a technique

These pictures incorporated a technique

The variety of marbles native to Italy used here is superb with many being shown in the publication of 1825

Having researched this unusual item we can find none other sold in recent times

in the later 19th century

yet attractive

A Rare 19thC Painted & Gilded Cast Iron Caduceus Apothecarist’s Trade Sign c.1880 sub-Religion & Relics These pictures incorporated a techniqueOrigin: 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