Yellow-sweet clover: Pharmacy jar

Sodium Nitrite

Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.

Label: DANGEROUS

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

Camphorated oil

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

EMPTY but cap is blocked and bottle will not open

Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case

Late 19th century - 1885-1894

Antique medical instrument from manufacturer MATHIEU in Paris

non-functional

Toothpaste elixir

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Chloroform

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century - Beginning of the 20th

Tripod Torch Holder with Coat of Arms - Napoleon III-era Troubadour style in brass

This style, known as ‘Troubadour style’, reintroduced fantastical animals and medieval imagery into the decorative arts. 

19th century

Sold without candle

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

Zinc chloride

Antique pharmacy bottle made of blown glass and enameled painted label.

Red TOXIC 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.

Dating: 19th century

EMPTY

Pyramidon

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Color pigments have been added to the inside of the jar

Antique anatomical model of the larynx and trachea made of painted papier-mâché.

Produced by Établissements Auzoux and manually dated 1938.

Model can be dismantled lengthwise, numbered, used for medical teaching.

Please note: one removable side piece is missing. The model remains stable and highly decorative. Authentic piece.

Handwritten inscription from the period: Larynx - Auzoux à St-Aubin-d’Écrosville Eure 1938

Placed in a metal base, it can be easily removed to hold it in your hand.

Kermes de Clusel - Antimony Sulfide

Antique pharmacy bottle made of blown glass and enameled painted label.

Red TOXIC 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.

Dating: 19th century

EMPTY

Ebonite cannula tip

Tips for enema or medical irrigation cannulas. New Old Stock

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

Brass plate number per unit

Numbered oval brass plate

Notebook – Order book from the Berthier Pharmacy in Paris

Writing on the first four pages only; the rest is blank