Phenacetin

Antique pharmacy bottle

Phenacetin is one of the first synthetic antalgic and antipyretic (anti-fever) from the chemical industry, very widespread in pharmacies from the end of the 19th century until the second half of the 20th century.

EMPTY - The cap is blocked and does not open

Antique wooden pharmacy display

Red chalk drawing- Anatomical drawing 

Anatomical study 

Drawn by Eugène de Montchoisy in Saint-Brieuc in November 1840

These are not reproductions but original period drawings in red chalk.

You are purchasing one plate, not the entire set of plates

Huile camphrée

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Le corps de l'Homme

Anatomical colour plates with cut-out superimposed leaves

By Edmond Perrier - Schleicher Frères & Cie Editeurs

No date, circa 1900

An antique absinthe topette (decanter)

6 Beaded Topette

Residue in the bottom of the carafe

Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard

Non-renewable label

The pharmacist used his boxes of medicine to put away the labels he would then put on the bottles that he would resell to his customers.

Iodine dye

Antique pharmacy bottle

With the inscription Teinture d'Iode molded in glass

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Le Jardin des Plantes

Description and habits of the mammals in the menagerie and the Natural History Museum

By Boitard - Antique book circa 1851

A beautiful snapshot of the museum and its garden in the mid-19th century, featuring interiors of the museum that no longer exist today.

Antique pharmacy bottle

BIOLACTYL Ferment Fournier - Early 1900

Mercury Chalk – Treatment for Syphilis

Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.

Handwritten label, pen inscription ‘Mercurial Chalk’, neat calligraphy with its thick and thin strokes.

Bottom band ‘TO BE SEPARATED’, instructing the pharmacist to store it 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.

Period: Judging by the handwriting, late 19th century

EMPTY

Collodion

Used as a liquid dressing

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Antipyrina Knorr

Named after its German discoverer: Ludwig Knorr

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century

Boule de Nancy - Genuine Mars Vulnerary Ball - Steel Ball

This iron-containing ball was once considered a miracle cure for many ailments and injuries.

The Boule de Nancy is sold individually in a small antique drugstore box

Unavailable today

The apothecary’s Drawer - Size L

Antique wooden pharmacy drawer that can be used as a storage box - Craft Furniture Drawer

To be diverted on the shelf or niche for your curiosities

Antique hand-crafted manufacturing with dovetail joints and turned wooden pull knob

Width: 13cm - Length: 49cm - Height: 5cm 

Sold empty, without accessories

Antique wooden advertising case for Mont Blanc - Rumilly condensed milk - Drawer

Found in Parisian cellars that served as laboratories and storage rooms for pharmacists preparing their masterful concoctions from 1900 to 1950.

It was used to store products, glass bottles, etc. 

This box is no longer just a transport container, it has been adopted as a piece of furniture.

Period: Circa 1920–1940