American mint alcohol

Antique pharmacy bottle

Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard

Label: Sirop d'Ether

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.

Mercury Chalk – Treatment for Syphilis

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

Handwritten label, pen inscription ‘Mercurial Chalk’, neat calligraphy with its thick and thin strokes.

Bottom band ‘TO BE SEPARATED’, instructing the pharmacist to store it 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.

Period: Judging by the handwriting, late 19th century

EMPTY

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

Camphorated oil

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

EMPTY but cap is blocked and bottle will not open

Antique drum microscope for botanist, entomologist

Mirror missing

Late 19th century, early 20th century

Aconit 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.

Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle

in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

Antique and large drum microscope

In it's mahogany wooden box

For botanist, entomologist

This is a larger model than those usually found on the market

Le Jardin des Plantes

Description and habits of the mammals in the menagerie and the Natural History Museum

By Boitard - Antique book circa 1851

A beautiful snapshot of the museum and its garden in the mid-19th century, featuring interiors of the museum that no longer exist today.

70° alcohol

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

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

Essence of star anise

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

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

Butterfly - Natural History color plate 

Entomology

You buy 1 plate, not the whole set

Sparteine sulphate

Used as a tonic for nervous syndromes at the very beginning of the 20th century, sparteine was also used to facilitate morphine withdrawal.

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Some product left inside

Infangyl Carlier

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

The box still contains its full, sealed bottle and instructions