Viavi San Francisco Capsules Cannister blanket The lid is attached by

The lid is attached by nice hinges

hand thrown lidded ceramic canisters have previously held the ingredients for many

and then to be burned in celebration of the end of a diet

The pin measures 2 3/4" at longest

but comes I believe from the Tonala region in Jalisco and resembles the work of Carlos Villanueva

Viavi San Francisco Capsules Cannister blanket The lid is attached byThe purpose of Viavi Capsules, in a wooden canister with a wonderful label c. 1920s or earlier, is a bit of a mystery. Viavi, based in San Francisco, produced a number of different products, most of which seem to have had to do with women's health, though even in their day the company owned by real estate magnates Herbert and Hartland Law seems to have been quite elusive about what their products did exactly. These capsules were intended as a vaginal