Rare and authentic wall sign panel

Pharmacy and fitting brand - Miss Hélène Deux, Bandagiste & 1st class Herbalist

Officine sign panel in painted wood from the 19th-20th century hinge: 1890-1920.

The sign is made of 2 reinforced wood panels at the back. There is a space between the 2 panels.

The sign features a superb art lettering entirely made freehand by a letter painter (superb contrasts of blue and brown, neat full and loose) 

Witness to the history of pharmacy and ancient orthopaedics: the bandagist shaping leather and frames for corsets and restraints, and the herbalist 1st class, a profession that has disappeared since the abolition of the diploma in 1941.

COLLIN medical pouch for hypodermic injection with Pravaz syringe - 1895/1910

Manufacturer: Maison Collin, Paris (engraved stamp "COLLIN" on the case), successor of Maison Charrière

Period: Late 19th – early 20th century (Belle Époque) - 1895/1910

Morphine kit

Diaphanization of a frog - Pelophylax ridibundus crossbred INRA (RIVAN92 strain) 

Biological preparation

The aim of diaphanization is to render the tissues transparent through a chemical process, and specific dyes are used to highlight the skeleton.

You can see the bones through the skin! You can even see the circulatory system!

Not a protected species

Diaphanization of a frog - Pelophylax ridibundus crossbred INRA (RIVAN92 strain) 

Biological preparation

The aim of diaphanization is to render the tissues transparent through a chemical process, and specific dyes are used to highlight the skeleton.

You can see the bones through the skin!

Not a protected species

European lobster - Beauchêne explosion style under glass

Homarus gammarus

By Will Never Die

Available in shop only - No shipping

Box of rubber washers for hot water bottles 

In its original cardboard box

1939/1940

New Old Stock

Pair of ebonite medical cannulas in their original cardboard box

Circa 1920–1930 

Original stock from that period

Packet of Potato Starch

Circa 1920

New old stock

Polished bone cannula - New vintage stock - In its reusable box

Vintage medical device designed to remove pinworms

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

Ebonite cannula tip

Tips for enema or medical irrigation cannulas. New Old Stock

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

Ebonite and glass laryngeal syringe

For intra-laryngeal injections.

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

Octopus Tentacle Diaphanisation - Octopus vulgaris

Biological preparation

The purpose of diaphanisation is to make fabrics transparent. The fabrics are made transparent using a chemical process, and specific dyes are used.

The flesh is made transparent, and here the dyes will adhere to the skin that has not been removed.

All tentacles are different: illustrative photos