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!
Toothpaste - Antique apothecary
Porcelain pot with illustrated plastic lid
Antiseptic
Early 20th century - Caution the lid is cracked
Antique glass dropper in white glass - 30ml
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Heart-shaped stopper
Antique drum microscope for botanist, entomologist
Mirror missing
Late 19th century, early 20th century
Hypodermic Pravaz syringe - 19th century
Glass and metal syringe in it's case
The glass is broken in several places
not functional
Hydrastis canadensis fluid extract
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Hypodermic Pravaz syringe - 19th century
Metal syringe in it's case
not functional
Museum jar - Wet specimen
Scorpion (Butus occitanus)
Antique Guyon bladder syringe in bakelite
Beginning of XXth century
"Tarnier" Forceps - COLLIN: french manufacturer of surgical instruments
An antique absinthe topette (decanter)
3 Beaded Topette
Quinine sulfate powder - Sulfate quinine pulv
Antique pharmacy bottle - End of XIXth century
Blown glass
Antique glass dropper in white glass - 45ml
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Heart-shaped stopper
Clef de Garengeot - Dental key - German key
Marked WAHL Nancy
In use from the 19th century to the 1930s
A Treatise on Surgery
By Dr Reclus and Dr Duplay
Antique illustrated book from 1892
Volume 8
The leather on the spine of the binding is cracked, see photos
Arséniate de Fer
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Sirop d'Iodure de fer
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Antique wooden box for herbal medicine - Samples of plants, seeds, bark etc.
