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Brendel Salvia flower model

The Salvia flower model consists of five handpainted papier mache removable parts which are 15 times enlarged. The pistil can be secured with a pin in the petal and between the stamens. The flower tissues are hold together by hooks. The reproductive organs together are placed in the flowerbase. A wooden stem leads to the ebonized decorated base, which has blue sticker. The sticker is marked: ‘No. 111 Salvia Officinalis. L. II 1. flos  Commn Sage Salbei. Blüthe Salvia Read More...

A ‘Nuremberg’ Wooden Compound Microscope,c.1800

A ‘Nuremberg’ Wooden Compound Microscope,c.1800 Dimension: 33cm (13”) closed;  39cm (15 ¼”) fully extended Condition: very good, optically sound, small chips to the wooden base. Maker: “IM” ———— A good wooden microscope made in Nuremberg, late 18th – early 19th. For a complete surveying on these microscopes see Yuval Goren’s coll.: https://www.microscopehistory.com/ Read More...

Müller Söhne artficial eyes

Box containing hundred artificial eyes by F. AD. Müller Söhne, made after 1909. The company Müller Söhne has been active on the market for artificial eyes since 1860 to present day. The company states that it combines art and craft in their glass eyes ever since. The eyes cannot be exactly dated, but on the inside of the box is indicated that Müller Sohne won the ‘Staatseherenpreis’ of 1909, the ‘Grand Prix Brussel of 1910’ and the ‘St Louis Read More...

Müller Söhne artficial children’s eyes

Sixty artificial children’s eyes in two boxes by F. AD. Müller Söhne, made after 1909. The company Müller Söhne has been active on the market for artificial ayes since 1860 to the present day. The company  states that it combines art and craft in their glass eyes ever since. The eyes cannot be exactly dated, but on one of the boxes is indicated that Müller Sohne won the ‘Staatseherenpreis’ of 1909, the ‘Grand Prix Brussel of 1910’ and the ‘St Read More...

Waltenhofen’s pendulum for magnetical induction by Kipp

A v. Waltenhofen’s pendulum by Kipp and sons Amsterdam, to demonstrate the dampening effect of induction, with a solid and a toothed piece of copper. Waltenhofen showed how to demonstrate the effect of eddy currents induced in a piece of copper moving in a magnetic field. His apparatus consists of a pendulum having a curved strip of copper at its lower end and arranged so that it hangs between the poles of an electromagnet. So long as no magnetic flux passes through the copper, the Read More...

2 microscope accessories from Carl Zeiss Jena

2 microscope accessories from Carl Zeiss Jena Both completely intact 1 Drawing prism (Zeichenprisma) in wooden box 85 mm wide, 2 and a microscope slide 1/400 qmm by Thoma Carl Zeiss Jena in black box 92 mm wide together for € 95.- Read More...

Geissler motor with fluorescent liquid

Geissler motor in working condition with Geissler tube with fluorescent liquid. 23 cm high with 11 cm Geissler tube.  Look for shop information on www.vanleestantiques.com  Sold to museum Société Française de Radiologie in Paris. https://www.radiologie.fr/musee-radiologie  Read More...

A c1920 German IUD with insertor.

A c1920 German IUD with insertor. It retains its original box and receipt. Length of box: 8.25″. This device was sold as a pessary because of laws in force at the time that governed the sale of contraceptives.  Read More...

NUREMBERG SPECTACLES WITH ORIG. CASE PRINTED AROUND RIM , JONAS SCHWARTZ WONHAFFT FURTH 1740

ALL IN VERY GOOD  CONDITION  ORIGINAL LENSES CONVEX WITH NO CHIPS , CLOSES WELL       Read More...

Hartnack 19th Century Microscope Nicol Prism Ocular With Goniometer

The goniometer eye-piece by Hartnack should fit any RMS tube diameter; that is, most continental European and American microscopes made after ca. 1850. Read More...

​A c1700 Johan Martin gilt-brass and silver equinoctial sundial

​A Johan Martin gilt-brass and silver equinoctial sundial, Germany, C1700. Signed Johan Martin in Augspurg 48, the octagonal dial with inset compass rose and mounted with silver hour arc and silver hinged gnomon, the reserve and back plate engraved with 39 European cities and their latitudes, in original leather case. Dimensions: 5 x4.5cms.  Read More...

Anatomical human child torso, C 1890

An Human child torso probably made by Bock Steger, C 1900.  The polychrome painted plaster model is mounted on a wooden board. The hand-painted plaster model has removable lungs and heart, liver and stomach. In perfect restored condition. Lenght of the torso 60 cm. Look for shop information on www.vanleestantiques.com Read More...