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

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An antique absinthe topette (decanter)

10 Beaded Topette

Crushed cola nuts

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

Strophanthus extract - Codex 1908

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.

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Red chalk drawing- Anatomical drawing 

Anatomical study 

Drawn by Eugène de Montchoisy in Saint-Brieuc in November 1840

These are not reproductions but original period drawings in red chalk.

You are purchasing one plate, not the entire set of plates

Racine de Ratanhia - Para Rhatany

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Dropper bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

Remains of a label from the Parc du Monceau Pharmacy

Is there any bluish residue left inside, and the bottle may have served as an inkwell at one time?

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Infangyl Carlier

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

The box still contains its full, sealed bottle and instructions

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

Gaïacol liquide

Antique pharmacy bottle

Green label: SUBSTANCE TO BE SEPARATED - CODEX 1908

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

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Polished bone cannula - New vintage stock - In its reusable box

Vintage medical device designed to remove pinworms

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

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

TOXIC label - Do not exceed the prescribed dose

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.

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

Solution N°153

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Chlorure de magnésium

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

EMPTY

Cumin Epicea Pill - Pil: Cum Picea

Antique blown glass pharmacy jar 

Apothecary