Apothecary Bowel

[Marc in Bavaria]

No coins today but I did find an apothecary bowl, it gave a good stable reading of 11-45 and was about 8" deep. Apothecary bowels were used for measuring medicine in the old days.There were several sizes in a set and they fit inside each other for storing so they are sometimes referred to as nesting weights. I have to clean this one up to see if it is hallmarked. This is the fourth one I have found in Germany.

Thanks for looking.

HH,
Marc

 

[stonecracker59]

That is an interesting find congrats. Howard

 

[ron_c]

Very interesting find. After you get it cleaned up how about posting new photos of the bowl.

 

[gibsondan]

That's an interesting find. Very nice.

 

[Marc in Bavaria]

Hi Ron, yes, I'm going to try to clean it up. What I thought was only dirt inside turns out to be lead so I am going to have to find a way to smelt it out. I guess someone might have been using it to form musket balls because I found some of those nearby and can't really think of another reason why someone would fill it up with lead.

HH,
Marc