A Rare 19thC Painted & Gilded Cast Iron Caduceus Apothecarist’s Trade Sign c.1880 poa-item He was then a Rhodes

He was then a Rhodes Scholar at Corpus Christi College

The lamps currently have French plugs as these lamps were last purchased in Pairs some 25 years ago

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

their owner is painted in as well

giving the piece a rather hypnotic nuance

A Rare 19thC Painted & Gilded Cast Iron Caduceus Apothecarist’s Trade Sign c.1880 poa-item He was then a RhodesOrigin: 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