The Apothecary’s Little Drawer
Small antique wooden apothecary’s drawer that can be used as a storage box – Trade drawer
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 Apothecary’s Little Drawer
Antique solid wood drawer from a pharmacy trade cabinet, suitable for use as a storage box.
Low, flat trade drawer, ideal for storing documents or repurposed as a wall shelf. Perfect for creating a small cabinet of curiosities with small items.
Handcrafted using traditional methods with dovetail joints and a turned wooden pull knob.
Good structural condition, with a beautiful, rough patina from use.
Found in the cellars of Parisian buildings that served as laboratories and storerooms for pharmacists preparing their compounded medicines from the 1900s to the 1950s.
Originally, it must have been part of a storage unit or a desk that has since disappeared; all that remains are a few drawers that were used to store products, blank pharmacy labels and other office items in this cellar.
Dimensions:
Width: 26cm - Length: 15.5cm - Height: 5.5cm - Weight: 400g
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
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.
Antique manual pharmacy stamp - BERTHIER Pharmacy
The rubber base, engraved in relief, reads: ‘Pharmacie de BERTHIER / rue de Phalsbourg / PARIS’.
Sturdy metal frame and ergonomic handle made from turned blackened wood
Soufre sublimé - Sublimed sulfur
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Brownbanded bamboo shark
Naturalized
Chiloscyllium punctatum
Unprotected species - Old taxidermy: visible suture under the belly and on the left side near the mouth
Le Cachet Rose Flossim - Flossim Pink Tablets
Vintage tin medicine box - Pharmacy - Apothecary
EMPTY
Dextrin powder - Starch - Pulvis Dextrinae
Antique pharmacy bottle
Blown glass
Antique Chrome-plated metal coffin handle
Winged hourglass motif
Art Deco period – 1925–1935
Some signs of oxidation on the handles
Brand new from the period; it has never been installed
Mercury Chalk – Treatment for Syphilis
Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.
Handwritten label, pen inscription ‘Mercurial Chalk’, neat calligraphy with its thick and thin strokes.
Bottom band ‘TO BE SEPARATED’, instructing the pharmacist to store it 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.
Period: Judging by the handwriting, late 19th century
EMPTY
Painted papier-mâché anatomical model of the brain
Produced by Établissements Auzoux
Model No. 12 from the 1874 catalogue
Dismantlable, numbered model, used for medical teaching.
A rare item in excellent working condition
This is a 1:1 scale model of the brain, sold separately at the time as a demonstration model; it is not a brain that was found inside anatomical manikins.
Calcium hypophosphite
Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.
Green label: SUBSTANCE TO BE STORED SEPARATELY – CODEX 1908
Handwritten label, pen inscription, neat calligraphy, with its thick and thin strokes.
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.
EMPTY
Le corps de l'Homme
Anatomical colour plates with cut-out superimposed leaves
By Edmond Perrier - Schleicher Frères & Cie Editeurs
No date, circa 1900
School canvas poster
Spider
Hagemann educational material publishing house in Düsseldorf
Printed in 1977
Elixir 173
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Empty
Reliquary box - 19th century
Jewelry box
Chinese Dragon with 4 claws
Known as the Mang Dragon to distinguish it from the Long Dragon with 5 claws, which was reserved for the Emperor of China and his family.
Solid brass sculpture
Mid-20th century
Orthoforme
Antique pharmacy bottle - Droguerie - Apothicaire
Silver medal at Paris 1889
Souvenir of Montmartre 1900 – Sacré-Cœur
Glass and brass reliquary box
Jewellery box
A chance find at a flea market allowed us to bring this jewellery box back from Ardèche (south of France), more than a century later, it returns to where it all began.
Metal ENT Olive Box - Original cardboard box
1939/1940
New old stock
The Apothecary’s Little Drawer
Small antique wooden apothecary’s drawer that can be used as a storage box – Trade drawer
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
