Antique drum microscope for botanist, entomologist

Mirror missing

Late 19th century, early 20th century

Cremor tartari sol - Cream of tartar

Potassium bitartrate

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century

Aqua Piris - Pear water

Antique pharmacy jar 

Apothecary

The Apothecary’s Little Drawer

Small antique wooden apothecary’s drawer that can be used as a storage box – Trade drawer

To be diverted on the shelf or niche for your curiosities

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

Antique wooden pharmacy display

Portable autopsy kit from the mid-19th century

Maison Charrière in Paris, circa 1845–1870

Mahogany case for autopsy and dissection

Small portable mahogany case containing a set of autopsy instruments: hook hammer, bone chisel, enterotome scissors, probes, hooks and suture needles. Used by forensic scientists and anatomists for opening and examining bodies.

Charrière, a major 19th-century Parisian manufacturer, was a pioneer in the design of high-precision surgical and anatomical instruments.

Mahogany and polished steel: 23 × 11 cm

Please note: crack in the wood under the case

A beautiful object, very rare to find

Ipecacuanha Opiate Powder - Dover's Powder

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

Green label: SUBSTANCE TO BE STORED SEPARATELY – CODEX 1908

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.

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Human jaws in porcelain mounted on a blackened wooden base

Anatomical dental model for dentists

19th century

Dropper bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

Remains of a label from the Parc du Monceau Pharmacy

Is there any bluish residue left inside, and the bottle may have served as an inkwell at one time?

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Butterfly - Natural History color plate 

Entomology

You buy 1 plate, not the whole set

Antique pharmacy bottle

BIOLACTYL Ferment Fournier - Early 1900

Square Section Dropper Bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

Glass stopper honed in the shape of a heart for better grip

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Boule de Nancy - Genuine Mars Vulnerary Ball - Steel Ball

This iron-containing ball was once considered a miracle cure for many ailments and injuries.

The Boule de Nancy is sold individually in a small antique drugstore box

Unavailable today

Foxglove leaves - POISON

Antique pharmacy bottle - 19th-century mouth-blown glass

Red POISON 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.

A fascinating testimony to pharmacology

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.

Sirop d'Iodure de Fer

Antique pharmacy bottle

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