Description:Pharmacists would dispense some medicines in powder form. After using a mortar and pestle to grind the medicines into a powder, individual doses would be packaged in paper envelopes. This brass powder folder was used for making up powdered prescriptions. It was used with 'Derry Paper' to make a neat 'Chemist's Wrap ' by hand. The width of the projections is adjustable so that the paper enevlopes can be folded accurately to fit neatly into the box given to the customer.
From the Staffordshire County Museum collection. Formerly part of the collection of Mr. Ewart Jones of Newbridge Pharmacy, Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton, where he worked from the late 1950s until the mid 1980s.