Dr. Potain’s aspirator set in its felt-lined box

Late 19th century, circa 1880

Antique medical instrument without manufacturer marking

non-functional

Duckling Diaphanisation - Domestic duck

Anas platyrhynchos domestica

Biological preparation

The purpose of diaphanization is to make transparent, fabrics are made transparent by a chemical process, and specific dyes highlight the skeleton.

You see the bones through the flesh!

It is not a protected species.

Octopus Tentacle Diaphanisation - Octopus vulgaris

Large Model

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.

Antique glass for Absinthe

Ref B

The twists on the glass are used to measure out the absinthe liquor and then pour the water over the sugar on the absinthe spoon on the glass to soften the bitterness of the drink.

Entomological box

Species: 5 Cymothoe sangaris butterflies from Centrafrica

Entomological box

Dimensions: 18.5x18.5cm

Entomological box

Species: 5 Junonia rhadama butterflies from Madagascar

Entomological box

Dimensions: 18.5x18.5cm

Cape Porcupine peak - Hystrix africaeaustralis 

Length from about 18 to 30 cm

Shorter peaks are thicker and more rigid, longer ones are thinner and more flexible.

Provenance: South Africa - CITES Status: Unprotected species, not listed in the CITES: sale and possession free and legal.

Black Bear Skull from Canada

Ursus americanus

You must live in the European Union to buy this skull

Not for sale outside the European Union

Sold with its CITES import permit

Black Bear Skull from Canada

Ursus americanus

You must live in the European Union to buy this skull

Not for sale outside the European Union

Sold with its CITES import permit

Black Bear Skull from Canada

Ursus americanus

You must live in the European Union to buy this skull

Not for sale outside the European Union

Sold with its CITES import permit

Iodine dye

Antique pharmacy bottle

With the inscription Teinture d'Iode molded in glass

EMPTY

Rock Candy

Antique Apothecary Bottle of Rock Candy – Coopération Pharmaceutique Française (circa 1930–1940)

It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had remained untouched on the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar served as a medical analysis laboratory and as a laboratory for the pharmacy's compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.

It still contains large crystals of rock candy (Saccharum candi), perfectly preserved.