A Rare 19thC Painted & Gilded Cast Iron Caduceus Apothecarist’s Trade Sign c.1880 poa-item their owner is painted in

their owner is painted in as well

Due to the uncertain nature of his father's income

this wonderfully unusual and graphical set is guaranteed to bring a few smiles to those of a certain political disposition

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

in a soft cheesecake colour

A Rare 19thC Painted & Gilded Cast Iron Caduceus Apothecarist’s Trade Sign c.1880 poa-item their owner is painted inOrigin: 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