Antique British Betel Nut Toothpaste Apothecary Jar with Gilded Border signatures Since finding a winder-in-a-bottle whimsy

Since finding a winder-in-a-bottle whimsy this past summer

excepting a bit of paint loss here and there

Box: 2 1/8" x 2 15/16" x 1"

With their flat backs it seems quite possible they once decorated something else

All 35 cards (17 pairs plus the old maid) are here

Antique British Betel Nut Toothpaste Apothecary Jar with Gilded Border signatures Since finding a winder-in-a-bottle whimsyI 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