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Hourglass with three flasks in a red and gold painted metal frame. Each base is decorated with a bird in the grass. The wider base features a frieze of stylized flowers and the narrower base a quatrefoil motif. The two bases are linked by six columns. The hourglass in the centre is made up of two flasks, one of which is double. Bubbled white glass and beige fabric seal covered with brocade thread. Beige silica sand. Dimensions: height of 15,3 cm x diameters 5,9 / Read More...

04 Apr

Marion Optician a Paris cistern barometer

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A cistern barometer by Marion, Opticien Passage de l’Opéra n13 a Paris. The barometer has a foldable wooden cover with closable sliding spyhole. The barometer is divided into two metal plates, the top plate is ‘heauteures metriques’ or metric heights. The lower plate is a thermometer and is signed 1820-1830. From top to the bottom under the thermometer tube with mercury. Hubert Melchior Marion (1809-1861) was born as a son of a wine merchant and was an optician in Paris. Read More...

02 Apr

Marble Garden Sundial LENOIR Quai de L’Horloge a Paris C.1780

By Antiques Le Saint Georges

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Marble Garden Sundial LENOIR Quai de L’Horloge a Paris Read More...

30 Mar

18th century Abbé Nolet single barrel type vacuum pump

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An 18th century Abbé Nolet single barrel type vacuum pump. It consists a single barrel supported on a high oak wooden tripod with carved floral motives. Between the legs the rod of the piston is projected. It terminates in a stirrup into which the foot was inserted to lower the piston. It was also equipped with a handle for reversing the movement. The plate is situated above the cylinder. This model of simple construction was fairly widespread in the fashionable Read More...

30 Mar

Talrich wax model Pelvis of a well-formed young woman Case A

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In our collection are currently three Talrich wax models of museum quality, made by the renowned maker Jules Talrich. The models are all in perfect restored condition. Our Parisian restorer made them ready for the upcoming 50 years, which means that they are cleaned and provided with a natural wax varnishing layer. The models can ‘breath’ and will not get a mold formation. Pictures before the restorain are available on application. The wax models of Jules Talrich are known for Read More...

30 Mar

Talrich wax model first month of pregnancy Case B

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A Talrich wax model of the First month of pregnancy in a well-formed multiparous young woman. The original catalogue text states that ‘the uterus contains a five-week embryo whose umbilical vesicle is fully developed and can be seen through the amnion membrane and the amniotic fluid. The cervical cavity begins to dilate but it is mainly in the last months of pregnancy that this opening dilates most rapidly. In primiparous women, this process only occurs at the time of Read More...

30 Mar

Talrich Wax Model Seventh Month Pregnancy Case C

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A Jules Talrich wax model of a well formed young lady, depicting the seventh month of pregnancy. — According to the Civil Code, article 312 and following, any child born after the one hundred and eightieth day of gestation is deemed viable. The fetus develops more and more rapidly as the end of pregnancy approaches, and the hair generally becomes darker. Original French text: Septième mois. — Aux termes du Code civil, article 312 et suivants, tout enfant né après le Read More...

22 Mar

Charming Equinoctial Sundial Langlois aux Galleries du Louvre

By Antiques Le Saint Georges

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Charming Equinoxial octogonal shaped signed Langlois Aux Galleries du Louvre à Paris The bottom of the compass is engraved with a wind rose in sixteen directions with the four cardinal points. Original blued steel hand with brass pivot. The hour circle is graduated on the top in Roman numerals from 3 to 12 and 1 to 8, and on the inside in Arabic numerals from 4 to 12 and 1 to 8. The underside of the hour circle is engraved Read More...

18 Mar

ELEGANT MEURAND GRAPHOMETER with INITIALS

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A good and elegant French graphometer by Antoine Joseph “MEURAND à Paris”. Age: 1750-1775 Dimension: 20cm (8”), 10cm (4”) radius. This beautiful brass instrument is in very good condition throughout, with fixed sights and silvered compass dial. The peculiarity is in the “M” decoration, recalling the Meurand name, instead of the more classical symmetrical floral design. ————————— Antoine Joseph Meurand (w1750-1805) of Paris, supplied instruments for the military campaign to Constantinople. Paris, rue du Clotre Saint-Jacques in 1766 Paris, 53 Quai de l’Horloge in 1771 and 1789 Read More...

14 Mar

Meurand Surveying Graphometer cased C 1760

By Antiques Le Saint Georges

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Interesting graphometer signed Meurand Quai de l’horloge à Paris in his wooden case. Beautiful compas with 16 Directions. The base has a finely shaped staff mount with ball and socket join and butterfly thumbscrew Good condition. Read More...

13 Mar

A. Frey blood pressure monitor J.&A. Bosch

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A blood pressure monitor inscribed with Blutdruckmesser nach Dr. A Frey Baden-Baden and on the inner side of the box J.&A. Bosch Strasburg. The Blood pressure monitor arises from a socket in in which a the steel stem can be secured. To this stem a connecting piece with two sliding holes is attached it over the stem. The connecting pieces can be secured by a rotary knob. To the horizontal direction the second stem is attached and secured. At Read More...

09 Mar

Exquisite silver sundial by Pierre Sevin hallmarked 1681-84

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Elegant and richly decorated silver sundial made by Pierre Sevin (active in Paris from 1662 to 1685), renowned for his precision instruments. Sevin was Ingenieur du roi and a member of the Founder’s Company. He also benefited from a close relationship with the Academie des Sciences and worked with mathematician Joseph Saveur (1653–1716), making for him a logarithmic scale of Saveur’s design and a new type of perpetual calendar. In 1662, he built a polyhedral sundial with the arms Read More...