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

Butterfly bell - Size M

Species: Nessaea hewitsonii butterfly from Peru

Butterfly under glass bell 

Species: Morpho aega from Brasil

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

Antique mechanical date stamp with rotating discs

Light wooden handle and metal frame.

The metal mechanism is in working order, but the rotating rubber date bands are original, dry and cracked, and in some places broken (printing functionality not guaranteed).

Sold for decorative purposes.

The Apothecary’s Little Drawer

Small antique wooden apothecary’s drawer that can be used as a storage box – Trade drawer

To be diverted on the shelf or niche for your curiosities

Handcrafted using traditional methods, with dovetail joints and a turned wooden handle

Width: 26cm - Length: 15.5cm - Height: 5.5cm 

All the drawers are different, with stains and varying signs of age on each one

Sold empty, without accessories

The Pharmacist's Dispensary Inkwell

Moulded glass safety inking pot - Late 19th century

sold without a pen

Impalpable Nux Vomica powder

White earthenware pot

Red POISON and TOXIC label

Signaling to the pharmacist that it is imperative to keep apart the other substances in the cabinet of toxic substances, the famous poison cabinet.

It comes from an old cellar-laboratory in a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not moved since the late 1950s on the shelves. The cellar had served as a laboratory for medical analyses and a laboratory for magistral preparations of the pharmacy from 1900 until around 1950.

EMPTY