A Rare 19thC Painted & Gilded Cast Iron Caduceus Apothecarist’s Trade Sign c.1880 sub-Natural History We believe this cast was

We believe this cast was first taken in 1851

The printed soft cotton Australian Red Ensign flag showing the Union Flag in the upper canton and constellation of stars to the red field

and this was officially acknowledged

There is a variety of degrading to the black background of the main piece with some chipping to the black background towards the bottom which we rather like as it serves to give the piece its history

A Rare 19thC Painted & Gilded Cast Iron Caduceus Apothecarist’s Trade Sign c.1880 sub-Natural History We believe this cast wasOrigin: 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