Kopé Opium Paste for Coughs

Antique tin medicine box - Pharmacy - Apothecary

Medical Confectionery: Circa 1920 

Paradoxes of the antique pharmacy, where notorious poisons were presented in the guise of harmless sweets.

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Octopus Tentacle Diaphanisation - Octopus vulgaris

Biological preparation

The purpose of diaphanisation is to make fabrics transparent. The fabrics are made transparent using a chemical process, and specific dyes are used.

The flesh is made transparent and the dyes attach themselves to the skin

All tentacles are different: illustrative photos

Antique manual pharmacy stamp - BERTHIER Pharmacy

The rubber base, engraved in relief, reads: ‘Pharmacie de BERTHIER / rue de Phalsbourg / PARIS’.

Sturdy metal frame and ergonomic handle made from turned blackened wood

Antique mechanical date stamp with rotating discs

Weathered wooden handle and metal frame.

The metal mechanism is in working order, but the rotating rubber date bands are original, dry and cracked, and in some places broken (printing functionality not guaranteed).

Sold for decorative purposes.

Antique mechanical date stamp with rotating discs

Light wooden handle and metal frame.

The metal mechanism is in working order, but the rotating rubber date bands are original, dry and cracked, and in some places broken (printing functionality not guaranteed).

Sold for decorative purposes.

Antique mechanical date stamp with rotating discs

Blackened wooden handle and metal frame.

The metal mechanism is in working order, but the rotating rubber date bands are original, dry and cracked, and in some places broken (printing functionality not guaranteed).

Sold for decorative purposes.

The Apothecary’s Little Drawer

Small antique wooden apothecary’s drawer that can be used as a storage box – Trade drawer

Handcrafted using traditional methods, with dovetail joints and a turned wooden handle

Width: 26cm - Length: 15.5cm - Height: 5.5cm 

All the drawers are different, with stains and varying signs of age on each one

Sold empty, without accessories

The Pharmacist's Dispensary Inkwell

Moulded glass safety inking pot - Late 19th century

sold without a pen

Catillon Granules – Strophanthin – Containing Ouabain

POISON

Antique tube of pharmaceutical granules – Apothecary

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RICQLES Mint alcohol bottle

1950s pharmacy glass bottle

Some product remains inside: Collectors’ item – Not for consumption

1937 Codex – French Pharmacopoeia

6th Edition – Decree of 21 February 1937

Volume I only

Atropine sulphate

Atropine is extracted from belladonna, the notorious poisonous plant.

Antique dropper 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: Late 19th century or very early 20th century (circa 1890–1910)

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