Antique Laundry blue box - Helvetia Blue from Talissot & Chevalier in Dôle and Geneva
Period: 1890-1905
Box containing 6 gold-plated “coins” made of blue wash, resembling the iconography of Swiss coins and medals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Beautiful blue and gold illustration on the box.
Your box will be sealed: never opened in 120 years
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Antique Laundry blue box - Helvetia Blue from Talissot & Chevalier in Dôle and Geneva
Period: 1890-1905
Also known as Guimet Blue (its inventor, or washing blue, azur blue, etc.)
Box containing six gold-colored pieces of blue dye for bleaching laundry, resembling the iconography of Swiss coins and medals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Your box will be sealed: never opened in 120 years
At a time when laundry was done by hand and then in a washing machine, it was sometimes difficult to achieve perfect whiteness. It was noticed that a very light blue dye could revive the whiteness of the laundry.
This is how azure blue or laundry blue was born.
In 1828, a chemist from Lyon, Jean-Baptiste Guimet, invented artificial ultramarine blue. This invention reduced the manufacturing cost tenfold, allowing for widespread use in France and also for export. This made Guimet a fortune, and he left us the superb Guimet Museum of Asian Art in Paris! The English also called it “Paris blue,” for example.
It was often sold in the form of blue balls in a box.
But here we are dealing with a true work of art, if I may say so.
The blue was compressed into the shape of a 5-centime coin and bronzed: the manufacturer compressed it with bronze or brass powder to give the illusion of a real coin! The blue color shows through the gilding.
At the end of the 19th century, there was a desire to ennoble industrial products by giving them the appearance of precious objects, hence the imitation of coins here.
Very aesthetic but also practical, as it prevents the blue powder from staining your fingers when you pick it up.
The product was extremely well designed and crafted for a simple blue washing tablet!
These coins are impossible to find today.
Beautiful blue and gold illustration on the box
Box dimensions: 8x5cm Coin diameter: 3.5cm
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Cinnamon Water
Antique and large brown English pharmacy bottle
Dropper bottle
Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
Remains of a label from the Parc du Monceau Pharmacy
Is there any bluish residue left inside, and the bottle may have served as an inkwell at one time?
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Copper Sulfate
Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.
19th-century mouth-blown glass
There are still some beautiful blue crystals inside.
A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology
Mercurochrome
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9
Man - Anatomical chart that can be disassembled
By Fernand Nathan Editeur publisher
Coloured chart with movable, cut-out and superimposed leaves
There are defects on the superimposed boards; the outer board, which was the man's torso, is missing, as are the lungs, which were above the heart. The left hand is missing, the arm being torn.
Phénol Aqueux
Antique pharmacy bottle
Green label: SUBSTANCE TO BE SEPARATED - CODEX 1908
This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others because it was dangerous - POISON
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Eau de Dalibour
Antique pharmacy bottle
Beautiful handwritten labels from the period
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Rue Powder
Rue was an abortive plant
Antique pharmacy bottle - Poison - Toxic
Orthoforme
Antique pharmacy bottle - Droguerie - Apothicaire
Silver medal at Paris 1889
Antique brass and cast-iron rack-and-pinion microscope in wooden case
Late 19th century - Early 20th century
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 16
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1761
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Floroscope
Botanist's microscope
Pocket microscope Late 19th - early 20th century
Warning: Here composed of 2 Stanhope lenses
RICQLES Mint alcohol bottle
1950s pharmacy glass bottle
Some product remains inside: Collectors’ item – Not for consumption
Ancient First-aid kit for healing snake bites
antique first-aid kit from the Pharmacie Michel LEGROS
Glass syringe in its case
Antique Snake Oil Salesmen product! Quack Medicine
Camphorated alcohol
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
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Datura powder
Antique earthenware pot
Intended for the exclusive use of pharmacists for making magistral preparations, the jar displays the regulatory labels "TOXIC" and the red banner "POISON".
Indicating to the pharmacist that it must be stored separately from other substances in the cabinet for toxic substances, the famous ‘poison cabinet’.
It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not been moved from the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar had served as a medical analysis laboratory and a laboratory for the pharmacy’s compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.
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Antique Laundry blue box - Helvetia Blue from Talissot & Chevalier in Dôle and Geneva
Period: 1890-1905
Box containing 6 gold-plated “coins” made of blue wash, resembling the iconography of Swiss coins and medals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Beautiful blue and gold illustration on the box.
Your box will be sealed: never opened in 120 years
UNOBTAINABLE
