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The item is an antique J.M. Grosvenor & Co. Konseal Filling and Closing Apparatus, a turn-of-the-20th-century pharmaceutical kit used by apothecaries to pack and seal medicinal powders into rice-flour cachets (capsules).
Purpose: Designed to help pharmacists quickly fill, moisten, and seal rice-paper wafers to mask bitter-tasting drugs like quinine before mass-produced gelatin capsules became standard.
Components: Housed in a wooden divided box with printed instruction labels inside the lid, nickel-plated metal mold plates, funnels, tampers, and a sealing water pan/roller.History:
Distributed in the U.S. by J.M. Grosvenor & Co. of Boston, Mass., utilizing patents originally developed by Karl Morstadt in Prague
