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
Alcool camphrée
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Impalpable Nux Vomica powder
White earthenware pot
Red POISON and 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.
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
An antique absinthe topette (decanter)
6 Beaded Topette
Residue in the bottom of the carafe
Large antique wooden pharmacy drawer with compartments - From a pharmacy or herbalist's cabinet
4 compartments
Ref A - 39.5x50cm
Can be used as a storage box
Weight: 4.1kg !
Square Section Dropper Bottle
Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
Glass stopper honed in the shape of a heart for better grip
EMPTY
Alum
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Color pigments have been added to the inside of the jar
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 6
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1749
Complete original edition with 5 fold-out plates
Potassium Cyanide and Iron
Also known as yellow potassium prussiate
Antique 19th-century pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Teinture d'Arnica
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Dr. Potain’s aspirator set in its felt-lined box
Late 19th century, circa 1880
Antique medical instrument maker without manufacturer marking
non-functional
Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard
To be used with care label
The pharmacist used his boxes of medicine to put away the labels he would then put on the bottles that he would resell to his customers.
Antique wooden advertising case for Nestlé concentrated infant milk
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 1910–1930
Mercurochrome
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9
Pyridoxine hydrochloride - Vitamin B6
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Dr. Potain’s aspirator set in its felt-lined box
Late 19th century, circa 1880
Antique medical instrument maker Maison Charrière in Paris, becoming Charrière - Collin et Cie.
non-functional
Antique wooden box for herbal medicine - Samples of plants, seeds, bark etc.
