An unusual and high
quality brass pill press from just after the the turn
of or the century engraved "Patent Richard Simon
Nottingham" and numbered 251 on both the handle and
the head. An intricate mechanism with a hinged lid
allows the pills to be pressed into a template. The
pill "dough" would then be cut by means of the
attached rotating knife and then removed on an early
bakelite perforated plate. The hinges and plates
remain in excellent condition and the piece is in
perfect working order.
