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.
Antique cast iron coffin handle circa 1900
With the motive of a winged hourglass.
Indeed the hourglass evokes the inexorable passage of time, each grain of sand representing a day of our life.
The hourglass is presented with the wings of a dove or an angel, both messengers of God, as if the instrument for measuring time became, with death, the soul that the dove or angel will carry to heaven.
By its reversible side, the hourglass evokes the ability of a new life or true life when it is turned over to restart a cycle.
Nice rusty patina: Traces of oxidation on the handles, more or less important
Would be perfect as a handle on a piece of furniture!
Brand new from the period, it has never been used.
In the past, coffin handles could also be purchased at hardware stores; these are often unsold stock from the era that has been rediscovered, as is the case here.
Size: 21x9.5cm Weight: 450g
Example of hardware catalog of the time in which this model is sold:
You buy 1 handle
ALL the handles are different in terms of oxidation
An antique absinthe topette (decanter)
6 Beaded Topette
Residue in the bottom of the carafe
Man and Woman
Anatomy booklet with removable boards
Around 1930's
Antique 19th century pharmacy bottle
Radix althaeae Off - Marshmallow
Jusquiame - Henbane
Antique pharmacy bottle.
Red ‘POISON’ label
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.
Date: Begining of 20th century
EMPTY
Camphorated alcohol
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
EMPTY
Naturalized Small-spotted catshark
Scyliorhinus canicula
Unprotected species - Old taxidermy: visible suture under the belly and on the left side near the mouth
Herbalist's or Pharmacist's jar
Antique blank label of the XVIIIth century
70° alcohol
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9
Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard
Poison label - Ref A
The pharmacist used his boxes of medicine to put away the labels he would then put on the bottles that he would resell to his customers.
Antique glass for Absinthe
Ref B
The twists on the glass are used to measure out the absinthe liquor and then pour the water over the sugar on the absinthe spoon on the glass to soften the bitterness of the drink.
Brass plate number per unit
Numbered oval brass plate
Bulb for hypodermic injection - Camphor (circa 1920)
various manufacturers
Antique Absinthe Spoon
The spoons have been used, are scratched, badly oxidized, etc.
You buy 1 spoon, not the whole lot
Créosote
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 in high doses
EMPTY
Crin de Florence - Antique suture thread
Catgut
Natural suture thread obtained from the caterpillar of the Bombyx mori butterfly.
Box of cocaine lozenges
Menthol - Cocaïno - Boraté by the Pharmacist Holler in Maubeuge
Magnificent lid typical of Art Nouveau: 1900-1910
EMPTY
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.
