Antique British Betel Nut Toothpaste Apothecary Jar with Gilded Border Kikuyu portrait A total delight to find

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

I really do love how often "Sweets" appears

lined in orange fabric

measured corner to corner

Antique British Betel Nut Toothpaste Apothecary Jar with Gilded Border Kikuyu portrait A total delight to findI 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