Oak desk card index cabinet - Antique pharmacy cabinet
Handcrafted
Period: 1910–1930
Oak desk card index cabinet - Antique pharmacy cabinet
An antique vertical filing cabinet, also known as a card index box, sourced directly from the storerooms of a former pharmacy.
A beautiful piece of professional equipment, ideal for a desk, a bookcase or as a charming alternative storage solution (for recipe cards, photos, mementos).
Found in the Parisian cellars that served as laboratories and storerooms for the pharmacist to prepare his compounded medicines from the 1900s to the 1950s, and which had remained in their original condition.
Material: Entirely made of oak, not plywood. Corners joined with straight dovetail joints. Fitted with its original brass stop compass, which allows the lid to be left open, even at a 45° angle. Small original guilloché metal pull tab on the side.
Period: 1910–1930. In the 1950s, the box would have been made of plywood.
Dimensions: Width: 15.5cm – Depth: 21cm – Height: 23cm - Weight: 1.15Kg
The box contains around ten period index cards. Some still bear their orange celluloid index tabs, inscribed in pen (Pills, Tablets, Syrups, Dragees), and list old-fashioned medicines (Ballotyl, Balsamol, Glycothymoline).
A little historical bonus: As evidence of the end of its career and its reuse in the 1940s, the reverse of several cards was used at the time to record the pharmacy’s handwritten accounts between 1946 and 1949 (staff costs, licence fees, and taxes linked to the introduction of the National Insurance scheme, etc.).
Indeed, as the pharmaceutical industry evolved rapidly in the post-war period, many traditional, homemade compounded preparations lost ground to standardised industrial medicines. With the formula sheets becoming redundant, they provided the perfect cardboard medium for administrative tasks. Particularly as shortages were rife in the immediate post-war period, reusing the reverse side of obsolete medical formula cards to create accounting drafts or annual balance sheets was common practice for the sake of economy.
The lid does not close tightly; as shown in the photo, there is a gap of approximately half a centimetre.
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sold without a pen
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Blackened 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 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.
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Weathered 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.
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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
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Color pigments have been added to the inside of the jar
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Period: Mid-20th century, inspired by Renaissance decorative motifs.
Sold without a candle and individually
Anatomical chart by Ludovic Hirschfeld drawn by Léveillé
From Traité et iconographie du système nerveux et des organes des sens de l'homme avec leur mode de préparation
Published in 1866
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Found in Parisian cellars that served as laboratories and storage rooms for pharmacists preparing their masterful concoctions from 1900 to 1950.
It was used to store products, glass bottles, etc.
This box is no longer just a transport container, it has been adopted as a piece of furniture.
Period: Circa 1920–1940
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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
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Original stock from that period
Oak desk card index cabinet - Antique pharmacy cabinet
Handcrafted
Period: 1910–1930
