Pocket microscope
Floroscope - Insectoscope in brass
1850's - 1930's
Pocket microscope
Floroscope - Brass insectoscope
Small pocket microscope that allowed for quick observation of insects, small minerals, flowers, etc. in nature.
These small microscopes were sold from the 1850s until around the 1930s.
Consisting of two detachable parts with lenses at each end, one being a biconvex magnifying lens placed on a cage and the other a square Stanhope lens placed in an eyepiece above a tube.
A non-period pin can be inserted into the slots in the cylindrical body, allowing the object to be examined, such as a plant or insect, to be positioned in line with the biconvex lens, the one with the cage.
You can read an interesting article about these pocket microscopes on the Compendium website: pocket microscope
Height: approx. 6.5 cm - Diameter: 2.5 cm
Antique glass dropper in white glass
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Unknown bottle from Coopération Pharmaceutique Française
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Ebonite cannula tip
Tips for enema or medical irrigation cannulas. New Old Stock
Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940
Incense
Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.
19th-century mouth-blown glass
There are still some product inside.
A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology
Poudre de réglisse - Licorice powder
Large cobalt blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - Shouldered - H28cm - 19th century
Shouldered apothecary bottle - Antique pharmacy bottle
Mouth-blown glass - Cobalt blue color tinted throughout
This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for stockpiling
Ancient engraving -board of Natural History in colour nineteenth century
An antique absinthe topette (decanter)
6 Beaded Topette
Residue in the bottom of the carafe
Boule de Nancy - Genuine Mars Vulnerary Ball - Steel Ball
This iron-containing ball was once considered a miracle cure for many ailments and injuries.
The Boule de Nancy is sold individually in a small antique drugstore box
Unavailable today
Manual of the Naturalist Preparer followed by a Treaty of Embalmings
by BOITARD - Book of 1853
5 fold-out plates at the end of the volume with beautiful engravings
Théâtre à la maison (Theatre at home) by B. Vadier
Circa 1880
Splendid publisher’s binding with cardboard plates from the Hetzel Collection
Solution N°153
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Square Section Dropper Bottle
Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
Glass stopper honed in the shape of a heart for better grip
EMPTY
Large antique wooden pharmacy drawer with compartments - From a pharmacy or herbalist's cabinet
4 compartments
Ref A - 39.5x50cm
Can be used as a storage box
Weight: 4.1kg !
Coffin handle - Winged hourglass
around 1900
You buy only 1 handle
Traces of oxidation on the handles, more or less important
Brand new from the period, it has never been used.
Berthet - Pharmacie de la Rotonde
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Sel de Fruit ENO - ENO Fruit Salt
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Pocket microscope
Floroscope - Insectoscope in brass
1850's - 1930's
