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
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Flame gorgon - Red Whip Coral on pedestal - Ellisella grandis from Indonesia
Antique bezoar - Antipoison - Antidote
Once sold by the apothecary, bezoar, also known as gallstone, was reputed to have the same anti-poison properties as the legendary unicorn's horn, hence its excessively high price, also due to its great rarity.
An important piece in a cabinet of curiosities
Sold alone - Without stand, sold separately
Ebonite and glass laryngeal syringe
For intra-laryngeal injections.
Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940
Anatomical articulated skinning
Paper-cardboard articulated mannequin
Human skeleton
Skeleton of an Indonesian pit viper under a globe
Species: Trimeresurus insularis
Bell height: 38 cm
No shipping
Entomological composition of beetles
28 specimens make up this picture
Black entomological box: 26x39cm
Ebonite cannula tip
Tips for enema or medical irrigation cannulas. New Old Stock
Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940
Clastic Mannequin - Dr. Auzoux's anatomical skinned
Polished Greater Kudu Skull for Hanging
South African Antelope - Tragelaphus strepsiceros
Wall Trophy
Ex-Voto heart in clay by Cuore di Argilla
Italy crafts - Made in Venice
A contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional ex-voto, originally a votive offering made to a god in request of a grace or in thanks for a grace obtained after a vow.
barracuda in it's glass reliquary box - Sphyraena barracuda
Wall decoration of Pompeii - Herculaneum mosaics: Chromolithographic plate
By Wilhelm Zahn
Published between 1832 and 1849
YOU ARE PURCHASING 1 SINGLE BOARD - NOT THE BOOK OR THE SET OF BOARDS
Mechanical cigar dispenser - Cigar cabinet- Cylindrical cigar box - Cigar cellar
Napoleon III period - 19th century
When you turn the knob, the doors open and close smoothly
This mechanical cigar dispenser is an iconic curiosity found in smoking rooms of the Napoleon III era.
Vertebra of Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
With its CITES license
Not for sale outside the European Union
You are buying 1 vertebra
Carved swordfish rostrum: Unique piece
Skulls motifs
Indonesian craftsmanship
