Box of rubber washers for hot water bottles
In its original cardboard box
1939/1940
New Old Stock
Box of rubber washers for hot water bottles
In its original cardboard box
A cylindrical cardboard box containing its original set of rubber washers. These seals were essential for replacing worn parts in hot water bottle stoppers (made of metal or stoneware), ensuring the safety of heat therapy administered to patients at home.
The lid bears the handwritten inscription in period ink: ‘Rondelles pour Bouchons de Bouillottes’.
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Still retains its original label showing the price and ‘taxe d’armement comprise’ (armament tax included).
This inscription serves as a chronological marker: the rearmament tax was introduced in France by the decree-law of 21 April 1939 to finance the nation’s rearmament. These caps were therefore sold between May 1939 and sometime in 1940.
It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles and other items 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.
Dimensions of the box: 6cm
Castel - Michel perfumers
Antique perfume bottle
Apothecary vial
1937 Codex – French Pharmacopoeia
6th Edition – Decree of 21 February 1937
Volume I only
Human jaws in porcelain mounted on a blackened wooden base
Anatomical dental model for dentists
19th century
Antique sodium chloride infusion bulb
500cm3
in its original box - Still full
American mint alcohol
Antique pharmacy bottle
Crin de Florence - Antique suture thread
Catgut
Natural suture thread obtained from the caterpillar of the Bombyx mori butterfly.
Large cobalt blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - Shouldered - H27.5cm - 19th century
Shouldered apothecary bottle - Antique pharmacy bottle
Mouth-blown glass - Cobalt blue color tinted throughout
This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for stockpiling
Nux Vomica Tincture – Strychnine
Antique amber glass bottle
Red ‘POISON’ label
Indicating to the pharmacist that it must be stored separately from other substances 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.
EMPTY
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.
Floroscope
Botanist's microscope
Pocket microscope Late 19th - early 20th century
Warning: Here composed of 2 Stanhope lenses
Antique drum microscope for botanist, entomologist
Mirror missing
Late 19th century, early 20th century
Camphorated oil
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
EMPTY but cap is blocked and bottle will not open
Notebook – Order book from the Berthier Pharmacy in Paris
Writing on the first four pages only; the rest is blank
Mastic of Chios
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
Protective laboratory bell jar - High form with knob in blown glass
Period: 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary
Used by the pharmacist to cover precision instruments or isolate preparations undergoing analysis
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Box of rubber washers for hot water bottles
In its original cardboard box
1939/1940
New Old Stock
