Toothpaste - Antique apothecary

Porcelain pot with illustrated plastic lid

Antiseptic

Early 20th century - Caution the lid is cracked

Cèdre - Cedarwood Oil

Antique pharmacy bottle

There is some product left, but the stopper is stuck

The writing has faded, but in oblique light one can make out CEDRE

Test Tube with Special Bulb for Mercury Ureometer - 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary

Period: 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary

To be diverted into a soliflore vase

70° alcohol

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9

Crin de Florence - Antique suture thread

Catgut

Natural suture thread obtained from the caterpillar of the Bombyx mori butterfly.

Yellow-sweet clover: Pharmacy jar

Aconite tincture

Antique pharmacy bottle

Green label: SUBSTANCE A SEPARER - CODEX 1908

This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others because it was dangerous in high doses- POISON

EMPTY

Antique wooden advertising case for Mont Blanc - Rumilly condensed milk - Drawer

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. 

This box is no longer just a transport container, it has been adopted as a piece of furniture.

Period: Circa 1920–1940

Gelatine

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

There is still some product left inside

A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology

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

Sodium formate

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

There is still some product left inside

Cobalt blue glass pharmacy jar - Apothecary - Wide neck - H26cm - 19th

Apothecary jar with wide opening. Antique pharmacy bottle

Mouth-blown glass - Cobalt blue color tinted throughout

This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for stockpiling

Cream tube against the head cold

Antipyrina Knorr

Named after its German discoverer: Ludwig Knorr

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century

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

UNOBTAINABLE

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.