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Victorian apothecary pill-rolling manual instrument. Mahogany or beechwood paddle with a ridged brass plate and two handles. The pharmacist would mix active ingredients into a dough-like pill mass The mass was rolled into a long cylinder (a "pipe") on the flat part of the board. The "1" on the side typically indicates the size or weight of the pill produced by that specific set of brass plates, as rollers often came in numbered sets for different dosages