The wooden pill silverer was a pill coater used throughout the 19th century to silver coat or gold coat pills. The formed pills were coated with mucilage such as acacia and syrup and then shaken in the pill silverer with gold or silver leaf.

Collectively, these 10 globes offer a unique, historical perspective into the process and history of US paper making, and they serve as an educational tool, with each individual globe representing a different step in the process of paper manufacture.

Each globe retains its original contents and bears a specific label describing the contents and their purpose. The glass globes measure just over 6 inches tall and are corked.

The 12 inch tall powder bottle has an open pontil on the base and sports a ground glass stopper, and is in fine condition with edge chips to the stopper as seen in the photo.

It is part of an unusual collection of 6 similar bottles that are offered for sale, some of which are etched WITTE’S PATENT 11/14/76. This particular bottle IS etched with this patent information.