- New
Coffin handle - Winged hourglass
around 1900
You buy only 1 handle
Traces of oxidation on the handles
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: signs of oxidation
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
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
Castel - Michel perfumers
Antique perfume bottle
Apothecary vial
Cremor tartari sol - Cream of tartar
Potassium bitartrate
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Late 19th century
Bulb for hypodermic injection - Camphor (circa 1920)
various manufacturers
Antique Guyon bladder syringe in bakelite
Beginning of XXth century
Strophanthus extract - Codex 1908
Early/ mid-20th century pharmacy jar in white earthenware
Beautiful labels: Red POISON label with the famous skull and crossbones and the Poisonous Substances label
Signaling to the pharmacist that it is imperative to keep apart the other substances in the cabinet of toxic substances, the famous poison cabinet.
It comes from an old cellar-laboratory in a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not moved since the late 1950s on the shelves. The cellar had served as a laboratory for medical analyses and a laboratory for magistral preparations of the pharmacy from 1900 until around 1950.
EMPTY
Antique apothecary bottle – Coca powder – Late 19th century/Early 20th century
POISON
Coca powder is the source of cocaine, which was the first effective local anaesthetic used in surgery and dentistry.
SOLD EMPTY
Collector’s bronze dental articulator
Circa 1920 for the bronze frame
The plaster and resin forming the gums and teeth are modern.
Pyramidon
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Color pigments have been added to the inside of the jar
Reliquary box - 19th century
Jewelry box
Excerpt from Strophanthus MENIER - TINY pot
Early/ mid-20th century pharmacy jar in white earthenware
Beautiful labels: Red POISON label with the famous skull and crossbones and the Poisonous Substances label
Signaling to the pharmacist that it is imperative to keep apart the other substances in the cabinet of toxic substances, the famous poison cabinet.
It comes from an old cellar-laboratory in a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not moved since the late 1950s on the shelves. The cellar had served as a laboratory for medical analyses and a laboratory for magistral preparations of the pharmacy from 1900 until around 1950.
EMPTY
Antique wooden advertising crate for Gallia / Ch. Gervais infant milk concentrate
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.
Period: Circa 1947–1955
Large cobalt blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - Shouldered - H27.5cm - 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
Floral Candelabra - Chiselled Brass and Painted Flowers - Circa 1900 - Candlestick
Late 19th century - Early 20th century: Belle Époque / Art Nouveau: 1895-1910
Sold without candles
Herbalist's or Pharmacist's jar
Antique blank label of the XVIIIth century
Lower part of the lower mandible of a horse jaw
Antique model from Maison Auzoux in Paris
Paper-mâché pedagogical model
Model A - 9 months
Coffin handle - Winged hourglass
around 1900
You buy only 1 handle
Traces of oxidation on the handles
Brand new from the period, it has never been used.