Carved swordfish rostrum: Unique piece
Skulls motifs
Indonesian craftsmanship
Carved swordfish rostrum: Unique piece
Skulls motifs
The swordfish (from the Latin Gladius) owes its name to the appearance of its rostrum (or beak), similar to a sword blade, and its ability to cut through the water with ease and speed. Swordfish rostrums are traditionally used to make weapons in New Guinea, for example.
This one is superbly carved in depth. The motifs appear in relief.
Provenance: Papuan craftsmanship
Notches appear on each side of the rostrum along the wire, due to the way the craftsmen work, which is to fasten the rostrum to a flat surface with a fastener in order to engrave it deeply.
Height with base: 93cm
Wooden base: 13x7.5cm
barracuda in it's glass reliquary box - Sphyraena barracuda
Louis Philippe period hanging table lamp
Period: July Monarchy around 1835-1845, still in transition from Rococo to the previous Restoration period.
Bronze with medal patina and cobalt blue blown glass.
Former oil night lamp.
Beautiful presence and intact patina, complete system.
Pirate Skull on Tentacles - Deer antler sculpture on base - Octopus
Material: Deer Antler
Origin: Indonesia
Diaphanization of a frog - Pelophylax ridibundus crossbred INRA (RIVAN92 strain)
Biological preparation
The aim of diaphanization is to render the tissues transparent through a chemical process, and specific dyes are used to highlight the skeleton.
You can see the bones through the skin! You can even see the circulatory system!
Not a protected species
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.
Leaves butterflies under oval glass bell - Kallima Inachus
Flight of butterflies under an antique Napoleon III-era glass dome
Species: 5 Parides eurimedes butterflies
Only available for pick-up in store at Paris, as the butterflies under the glass dome are too fragile to be shipped
Entomological box
Composition with South American butterflies
Morpho and heliconius
Duckling Diaphanisation - Domestic duck
Anas platyrhynchos domestica
Biological preparation
The purpose of diaphanization is to make transparent, fabrics are made transparent by a chemical process, and specific dyes highlight the skeleton.
You see the bones through the flesh!
It is not a protected species.
19th century Herbalist's or Pharmacy crystal jar
Iris
Anatomical chart by Ludovic Hirschfeld drawn by Léveillé
From Traité et iconographie du système nerveux et des organes des sens de l'homme avec leur mode de préparation
Published in 1866
Lithography
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
Steampunk Flight of butterflies Napeocles Jucunda et Salamis Parhassus
Butterflies flying under an antique Napoleon III victorian glass dome
Under a 19th-century glass globe
Composition - Label of the City of Paris - Fabriqué à Paris 2026
Only available for pick-up in store at Paris, as the butterflies under the glass dome are too fragile to be shipped
Southern eland polish horn
Horn on pedestal - Taurotragus oryx
Double skeleton
Sculpture on deer antlers
Unique piece
Australian saltwater crocodile skull: Crocodylus porosus
Estuary crocodile
With its CITES permit
33cm
Can only be sold in the European Union- Shengen Area
Carved swordfish rostrum: Unique piece
Skulls motifs
Indonesian craftsmanship
