Large antique laboratory test tube made of actinic glass (brown glass) - Pharmacy
Its unusual dimensions make it a model with a beautiful presence
Large antique laboratory test tube made of actinic glass (brown glass) - Pharmacy
Period: Early 20th century
Large laboratory test tube made of brown blown glass, called actinic glass.
This actinic glassware was specifically tinted brown throughout to absorb ultraviolet rays and allow the pharmacist to protect and preserve highly photosensitive substances that would degrade in direct light.
The tube has a well-marked flared lip and ends with a round hemispherical bottom.
Its unusual dimensions make it a model of a beautiful presence.
Length: 21cm - Diameter at the entrance: 3.5cm
Comes from a former basement-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles and other utensils had not moved from the shelves since the late 1950s. The basement had served as a medical analysis laboratory and a laboratory for the pharmacy's magisterial preparations from 1900 until around 1950.
Toothpaste - Antique apothecary
Porcelain pot with illustrated plastic lid
Antiseptic
Early 20th century - Caution the lid is cracked
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.
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
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.
Man - Anatomical chart that can be disassembled
By Fernand Nathan Editeur publisher
Coloured chart with movable, cut-out and superimposed leaves
There are defects on the superimposed boards; the outer board, which was the man's torso, is missing, as are the lungs, which were above the heart. The left hand is missing, the arm being torn.
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
Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle
in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe
Antique medicine bottle
Apothecary
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.
Excerpt from Strophanthus MENIER - TINY pot
Early/ mid-20th century pharmacy jar in white earthenware
Beautiful labels: Red POISON label with the famous skull and crossbones and the Poisonous Substances 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
Jusquiame - Henbane
Antique pharmacy 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.
Date: Begining of 20th century
EMPTY
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.
Lower part of the lower mandible of a horse jaw
Antique model from Maison Auzoux in Paris
Paper-mâché pedagogical model
Model B - 1 year
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Toothpaste elixir
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
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.
A avaler aux repas To be taken with meals (as far as can be made out from the torn label)
Antique pharmacy bottle
Torn label
Large antique laboratory test tube made of actinic glass (brown glass) - Pharmacy
Its unusual dimensions make it a model with a beautiful presence
