Portable autopsy kit from the mid-19th century

Maison Charrière in Paris, circa 1845–1870

Mahogany case for autopsy and dissection

Small portable mahogany case containing a set of autopsy instruments: hook hammer, bone chisel, enterotome scissors, probes, hooks and suture needles. Used by forensic scientists and anatomists for opening and examining bodies.

Charrière, a major 19th-century Parisian manufacturer, was a pioneer in the design of high-precision surgical and anatomical instruments.

Mahogany and polished steel: 23 × 11 cm

Please note: crack in the wood under the case

A beautiful object, very rare to find

Celestine Egg - Mineral WITH base

Origin: Madagascar

Be careful to protect it from water, which alters it: it dissolves or cracks on contact!

Sold with base

Naturalist Magnifier

Morpho Didius butterfly from Peru

Bat with wings spread under globe

Species: Cynopterus brachyotis

Bell height 41 cm

No shipping

Anatomical chart by Paulet and Sarazin

From the Traité d'anatomie topographique (Treatise on topographical anatomy)

Published in 1867-1870

Chromolithography

You buy 1 plate, not the whole set

Ex-Voto heart in clay by Cuore di Argilla - Zodiac

Italy crafts

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.

There remains Sagittarius

Celestine Egg - Mineral WITH base

Origin: Madagascar

Be careful to protect it from water, which alters it: it dissolves or cracks on contact!

Sold with base

Flame gorgon - Red Whip Coral on pedestal - Ellisella grandis from Indonesia

Madagascar sawyer ammonite - Cleoniceras fern ammonite

Cleoniceras fern ammonite

100 million year old fossil 

Butterfly - Natural History color plate 

Entomology

You buy 1 plate, not the whole set

The Skull and its Octopus

The skull is made of tamarind wood and the octopus is carved from deer antler, an assembly of carved pieces of deer antler. Articulated jaws and deer antler teeth.

Origin: Indonesia

Sold WITHOUT glass bell

Painted botanical plate - Cryptogamy

Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania on the corvettes the Astrolabe and the Zélée, executed by order of the king during the years 1837-1838-1839-1840 under the command of M. Dumont-d'Urville captain of vessel

Published in 1846

Atlas of Natural History - Botany

Cryptogamy

Deer antler sculpture - Totem Skulls on pedestal

Material : Antler

Origin: Indonesia

Deer antler wood sculpture - Octopus on pedestal

Material : Antler

Origin: Indonesia