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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Iconodule, post: 10533587, member: 91417&quot;]Here is a pharmacy jar with the double-headed eagle surmounted by a crown, identified as Habsburg:</p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/157108712366" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/157108712366" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/157108712366</a></p><p>The crown does connect it to royal/imperial arms. So the question is &quot;Why would the Habsburg crest be on a pharmaceutical jar?&quot; Is it a double meaning, claiming imperial approval of the medicine and the historical link to alchemy/pharmacy?&nbsp; Or is it analogous to Straffordshire (and other English) 19th century potteries using the royal arms in their pottery marks?&nbsp; Does anyone have a definitive answer?</p><p><br /></p><p>The 18th century drug jar in in the National Museum of American History collection (<a href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_993667" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_993667" rel="nofollow">https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_993667</a>) has a double-headed eagle surmounted by a crown.&nbsp; The site states, &quot;George Urdang attributes this jar to 18th-century Nuremberg and the St. Emeran Episcopal Court Pharmacy.&quot;&nbsp; Is your jar from a court pharmacy? (I suspect a court pharmacy jar embelm would be more skillfully painted.) Does anyone know how widespread imperial arms on pharmacy jars are?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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