Packet of Potato Starch

Circa 1920

New old stock

Butterfly bell - Size M

Species: Nessaea hewitsonii butterfly from Peru

Butterfly under glass bell 

Species: Morpho aega from Brasil

Glass needle tube - Sold individually

Various models and sizes - Variable length: Between 6cm and 8.5cm

With or without manufacturer’s label

EMPTY

Polished bone cannula - New vintage stock - In its reusable box

Vintage medical device designed to remove pinworms

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

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.

EMPTY

Ebonite cannula tip

Tips for enema or medical irrigation cannulas. New Old Stock

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

Ebonite and glass laryngeal syringe

For intra-laryngeal injections.

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

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.