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’.
New Old Stock
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
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Large antique wooden pharmacy drawer with compartments - From a pharmacy or herbalist's cabinet
3 compartments
Ref C - 39.5x50cm
Can be used as a storage box
Weight: 4.1kg !
Protective laboratory bell jar - Low form with knob in blown glass
Period: 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary
Used by the pharmacist to cover precision instruments or isolate preparations undergoing analysis
Alum
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Color pigments have been added to the inside of the jar
Toothpaste elixir
Antique pharmacy bottle
Handwritten label with pen
An antique absinthe topette (decanter)
4 Beaded Topette
Lead iodide
Antique pharmacy bottle made of blown glass and enameled painted label.
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.
Dating: 19th century
EMPTY
Eau de Botot - Tooth-cleansing Elixir
CODEX 1884
Antique 19th-century pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Tincture of Jalap Compound also known as German brandy
A purgative powder is extracted from the Jalap plant.
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Mercurochrome
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9
Painted papier-mâché anatomical model of the brain
Produced by Établissements Auzoux
Model No. 12 from the 1874 catalogue
Dismantlable, numbered model, used for medical teaching.
A rare item in excellent working condition
This is a 1:1 scale model of the brain, sold separately at the time as a demonstration model; it is not a brain that was found inside anatomical manikins.
Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard
Poison label - Ref A
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.
Toothpaste - Antique apothecary
Porcelain pot with illustrated plastic lid
Antiseptic
Early 20th century - Caution the lid is cracked
Antique pharmacy bottle
BIOLACTYL Ferment Fournier - Early 1900
Dropper Bottle
Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
EMPTY
Box of rubber washers for hot water bottles
In its original cardboard box
1939/1940
New Old Stock
