Antique British Betel Nut Toothpaste Apothecary Jar with Gilded Border Kikuyu portrait I really do love how

I really do love how often "Sweets" appears

and a student at Konvikt Rottweil in Germany

A total delight to find this at Brimfield--a quintessentially Victorian set of 36 glass microscope slides

and one smaller one a little ways in

Antique British Betel Nut Toothpaste Apothecary Jar with Gilded Border Kikuyu portrait I really do love howI love these old late 19th c. transfer printed porcelain apothecary jars, most of them made for toothpaste, which, by the 1880s, most pharmacists were making formulating their own recipes for. This one, for Bell's Betel Nut Toothpaste (the betel nuts, also known as areca nuts, presumably imported from Southeast Asia) was produced by Ferris and Co in Bristol, England, "Chemists to the Queen"and is fairly rare in featuring a gilded border. 3 3 8" in