All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Scientific : Pre 1960 item #1309777 (stock #M1421)
Offered for your consideration is a very rarely found Bausch & Lomb eye muscles advertising and teaching display!

The display is appealing with embossed and raised detailing featuring eye muscle anatomy!

The display dates to the 1950s and is in fine condition. It is complete with a fold-out display stand, measuring approximately 13 inches high x 8 inches wide.

Perfect for your collection or office.

All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Scientific : Pre 1960 item #1364315 (stock #9632)
A vintage Ridgway's 45-2902 proportional divider drafting tool in case with instructions. This vintage tool is used for drafting purposes and it includes the folded instructions pamphlet. It sits in the original 8-1/4" long plush fitted box which has a Ridgway's 45-2902 gold stencil mark on the top and a sliding locking bar/plunger to open it...
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Scientific : Pre 1900 item #1385294 (stock #M1368)
Offered is a choice, 19th century, physician's, Homeopathic Medicine Case, a nearly complete example containing 147 of the original 150 corked vials!

Each vial measures approximately 1.5 inches in length including the cork. The vials are nestled in the leather case, and each vial sports a small paper label. The fitted case measures 10.5" long x 2" wide x 3.5" high and shows wear commensurate with age and use...

All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Scientific : Pre 1930 item #1212813 (stock #6954)
A Cameron Surgical Supply Co surgical lamp full kit circa 1920. This unusual and early electric surgical lamp set is by the Cameron Surgical Specialty Company which was famous for their pioneering surgical and medical diagnostic and surgical lamps. This is the full kit with fittings for the ear, eye, various orifices and the odd cavity, including the head-mounted lamp as well. It includes the original 15 x 12" plush fitted case with almost the full array of original equipment...
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Scientific : Pre 1950 item #407882 (stock #M821)
Offered for your enjoyment is an absolutely wonderful, one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted, miniature, folk art dentist office display model from the 1950’s! The display has been artistically crafted and assembled of randomly selected materials and miscellaneous fabrics to create a miniature model of a dentist practicing his craft on a most distraught patient.

This imaginative work of art is best appreciated in person as it was difficult to photograph due to glare from both flash and natural sunligh...

All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Pre 1900 item #814716 (stock #M957)
Offered for consideration is a rare and often overlooked pharmacy tool-of-the-trade called a Pill Rounder (Pill Finisher)that dates to the late 1900s.

A pill rounder was used to create perfect pill spheres just prior to the pill being dusted with powder.

Made of a light colored hardwood, this pill rounder is in fine condition and is double sided which means that it was used to finish two different diameter pills...

All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Pre 1950 item #941847 (stock #gam-129)
Vintage steel frame NAUTICAL DISTANCE INSTRUMENT made in GERMANY mid twentieth century used to measure Nautical Miles, Statute Miles, Kilometers, one inch to one mile on maps, having English on one side. The other side in French Inches to Miles or Versies, Centimeters to Kilometers, rotating disc at base corresponds to movable needle, measuring distance on maps. Measuremants: 3"x 1 1/8" Condition is excellent.
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Timepieces : Pre 1900 item #1381719 (stock #40J18-103)
Antique Victorian Ansonia Crystal Palace No. 1 Extra parlor clock under a glass dome. Impressed Davies on wood base, patented, Jan. 26, 1874, with label on reverse. Brass 8-day movement striking on a bell. The gilded stamped brass face is accented in green enamel and has its original paper dial. Faux mercury pendulum with reflecting mirror back. Two patinated spelter figures of a boatsman with oar and a woman with hook. Walnut base. Running condition...
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Scientific : Pre 1900 item #1391213 (stock #M1384)
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This wonderful, all-original pair of matching, 19th century, Whital Tatum, hanging, egg-shaped Apothecary show globes each measure approximately 33 inches from top of chain to bottom of fixture. The 3 1/2 gallon size globes have a patent date embossed inside the brass-plated crown on top: "June 16, 1895"...

All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Scientific : Pre 1930 item #388721 (stock #R040)
This hard-to-find vintage medical cabinet would make a wonderful display case for your treasures. French, circa 1920's, it has a metal frame with glass walls, four adjustable glass shelves, a lock & key. Marked "Appareils Medico-Chirurgicaux, LOREAU, 3 bis rue Abel Paris XII", the cabinet stands 27-1/2" tall (29" to top of knob), 15-3/4" wide & 10" deep. The four glass shelves are adjustable to any height & are held in place with metal rods. The shelves are 8-1/2" deep & 14-1/2" long...
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Scientific : Pre 1940 item #365950 (stock #M806)
This is a wonderful lithographed tin of Wilson’s CO-RE-GA denture adhesive powder with a great image on front. Marked FREE SAMPLE on the front. The tin was manufactured by The Corega Chemical Company, Cleveland, Ohio, with offices in London, Paris, and Montreal. The brass cap marked is Co-Re-Ga and includes its 1933 Patent number.

Some powder still exists! There is unobtrusive tarnishing, but no corrosion. There is a 1/4" area of paint loss to the back top left of the tin...

All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Pre 1800 item #961149 (stock #40E81 157)
American Revolutionary War era military style wooden canteen. 19th century. Oak hand carved staves held together by four horizontal hand forged iron bands and two vertical bands; two iron rings and hand forged nails. A keg form canteen with two holes in the top; and with two iron carrying rings for a sling. Condition is very good; the upper most iron band is loose. Dimensions: 8" high x 8.5" wide x 5" deep.
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Tools : Pre 1910 item #1012384 (stock #6376)
An early and unusual pair of c1900 direct reading micrometers by J.T. Slocomb of Providence, Rhode Island. These 6-1/2" long hand-held thickness gauges are similar to the standard shaft-read micrometers except they have an indicator disc and pointer indicating the depth of the measured item (in this case probably sheet metal)...
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Pre 1950 item #1019825 (stock #40F75 104)
World War II era Hamilton Navigator's chronograph watch, Model 23, housed in an original U.S. Army metal canister carrying case with round viewing window, manufactured by George H. Adamson, of Tecumseh, Michigan. Circa 1942-1943. This watch was used by the U.S. Army Air Corps as a navigation watch and bomb timer. It comes in its protective metal canister with spring cushion support mechanism. These cases are rarely found and were given to the navigators of various types of bombers and troop ...
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Scientific : Pre 1970 item #431361 (stock #M826)
Offered for sale is a lovely apothecary show globe that was originally offered to druggists in the 1960s – 1970s by Parke-Davis pharmacy salesmen. This 19.5 inch beauty sports a deep red decorated globe set upon a gold and black pedestal. The globe sports advertising on two sides of the base and the “Rx” on the globe.

The condition of the globe is very good with no damage to the plastic. There are some tiny white paint flecks to one side of the base otherwise the globe displays beau...

All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Musical : Pre 1950 item #1232805 (stock #7015)
A vintage single row 10 button plus 5 bass button German maade Hohner accordion or melodeon. This example features ornate gold stencilling on the black patinated wood, orange bellows and a pierced chrome plated grille. This unit is clean and fully functional (and LOUD) and the straps and bellows are in superb condition. Everything works just fine and this unit is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, dents, bends, losses, damage or repairs other than some dulling of the decal at the b...
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Musical : Pre 1930 item #1421658 (stock #T31B11T-4495)
Antique dinner gong on stand. Circa 1920s. Size: 20 inches Lg. x 21 inches ht. x 12 3/8 inches deep. Found in Wiscasset, Maine. A xylophone style five tone dinner gong affixed to a wooden stand.
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Scientific : Pre 1970 item #349029 (stock #G538)
Offered is an absolutely wonderful, giant-sized, 1960's, dental toothbrush which once served as an advertising display piece for "DR. WEST'S MIRACLE TUFT" toothbrushes!!

It measures a mammoth 18 inches long and is perfect for display in any dental collection, including in the dentist's office!

The condition is very good with some scratches and unobtrusive bent bristles (perhaps it was slightly used by the Jolly Green Giant??).

A truly unique and quite amusing dental display piece!!! A ...