Original heraldic engraving on copper (1722) in colour - A System of Heraldry - By Alexander Nisbet

The vignette was cut from an original folio sheet and then hand-enhanced with a subtle watercolor painting.

The event is presented under a modern passe-partout

Coat of arms of the family: Dalrymple of Cranstoun

Stem - Baroque base in turned wood and gilded stucco - Italy (Tuscany), 19th century

Italian Giltwood Altar Floral Stand

Antique religious altar bouquet stem made of turned and carved wood, covered with a stucco undercoating (gesso) and gilded.

Lack of gesso and gilding in some places, which is precisely why the white gesso appears under the gilding.

Traces of use and visible gaps in stucco

Stem - Baroque base in turned wood and gilded stucco - Italy (Tuscany), 19th century

Italian Giltwood Altar Floral Stand

Antique religious altar bouquet stem made of turned and carved wood, covered with a stucco undercoating (gesso) and gilded.

Lack of gesso and gilding in some places, which is precisely why the white gesso appears under the gilding.

Traces of use and visible gaps in stucco

Antique intaglio and cameo print from the Grand Tour of the 19th century

Two-tone sulfur print

True testimony of the Grand Tour carried out by the aristocrats in the 19th century

Antique bust / scholar profile

Antique intaglio and cameo print from the Grand Tour of the 19th century

In Brown Wax

True testimony of the Grand Tour carried out by the aristocrats in the 19th century

Profiles in the antique style, mythological scenes or Greco-Roman deities

Antique intaglio and cameo print from the Grand Tour of the 19th century

In Red Sealing Wax

True testimony of the Grand Tour carried out by the aristocrats in the 19th century

Profiles in the antique style, mythological scenes or Greco-Roman deities

Antique intaglio and cameo print from the Grand Tour of the 19th century

In Red Sulfur

True testimony of the Grand Tour carried out by the aristocrats in the 19th century

Profiles in the antique style, mythological scenes or Greco-Roman deities

Antique intaglio and cameo print from the Grand Tour of the 19th century

In Gray Sulfur

True testimony of the Grand Tour carried out by the aristocrats in the 19th century

Profiles in the antique style, mythological scenes or Greco-Roman deities

Antique intaglio and cameo print from the Grand Tour of the 19th century

White plaster

True testimony of the Grand Tour carried out by the aristocrats in the 19th century

Profiles in the antique style, mythological scenes or Greco-Roman deities

Tétra-chlorure de Carbone - Carbon Tetrachloride

Antique pharmacy bottle with old label POULENC FRERES circa 1928

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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Liqueur Ammoniac: anisée

Antique pharmacy bottle with handwritten writing.

Also called the aniseed ammonia spirit.

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Iodine dye

Antique pharmacy bottle

With the inscription Teinture d'Iode molded in glass

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