Antique wooden box for herbal medicine - Samples of plants, seeds, bark etc.
Antique wooden box for herbal medicine - Samples of plants, seeds, bark etc.
Box from a collection from the 1930's by a pharmacist in Central France and kept in the attic of the pharmacy.
The box is made of light wood (fir?) and almost always has a handwritten label with the name in French and Latin, as well as the classification, but sometimes the label is missing.
Contents: seeds, leaves, bark, roots, tubers, petals, flowers, gum, resin, mushrooms, lichen, moss etc...
Various sizes between 3.5cm (small size S), 4.5cm (medium size M) ,6.5cm (large size L) - Not all boxes are exactly this size.
As the collection comprises 199 samples, it is impossible to list it here. You will receive a random box. Surprise on arrival!
Antique glass eye - Semi-finished
Genuine antique ocular prosthesis
Color variations and irises of different sizes
The price is per unit, for one eye only
Phénol Aqueux
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 - POISON
EMPTY
Packet of Potato Starch
Circa 1920
New old stock
Buckthorns syrup
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Antique Laundry blue box - Helvetia Blue from Talissot & Chevalier in Dôle and Geneva
Period: 1890-1905
Box containing 6 gold-plated “coins” made of blue wash, resembling the iconography of Swiss coins and medals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Beautiful blue and gold illustration on the box.
Your box will be sealed: never opened in 120 years
American mint alcohol
Antique pharmacy bottle
Infangyl Carlier
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
The box still contains its full, sealed bottle and instructions
Potassium Bromide Elixir
Antique and large brown English pharmacy bottle
Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case
Late 19th century - 1870-1895
Antique medical instrument
However, the box comes from the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris, as indicated by the inscription on the top of the box, from the Bouillaud ward of the hospital.
non-functional
Puldose Nasal Spray for aqueous solutions - Antique remedy
In its Plastic box
Used in otolaryngology, it was intended for nasal or oral sprays in the treatment of colds and antiseptic treatment of the respiratory tract.
Jusquiame leaves - POISON
Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.
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.
Specimen jar in blown glass - Inverted apothecary jar - Seed vase
Size L
A vintage laboratory or conservatory container designed for the display and preservation of biological or botanical specimens
Laboratory pestle in chiseled metal and apothecary hard stone
Possibly an agate or jade
Dating: Belle Époque (Circa 1890 - 1910)
Pyramidon
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Color pigments have been added to the inside of the jar
Antique pharmacy jar: Illicium verum (Fruit) / Star anise
Glass pharmacy bottle - XIXth century
Antique wooden box for herbal medicine - Samples of plants, seeds, bark etc.
