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Marion Optician a Paris cistern barometer

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...

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

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

Ptolemaic Planetaria Delamarche with hand mechanism C 1830

Ptolemaic Planetaria Delamarche with hand mechanism C 1830 With Sun in the center symbolized by Gilted wooden sphere. With Mercure Uranus Venus Jupiter Mars Neptune Saturne  Read More...

18th century Abbé Nolet single barrel type vacuum pump

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...

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

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...

Talrich wax model first month of pregnancy Case B

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...

Talrich Wax Model Seventh Month Pregnancy Case C

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...

Large Octant By Joseph Roux a Marseille cased

Large Octant By Joseph Roux a Marseille in his original green case. Label of Joseph Roux with sailor with an Octant. Read More...

An important quartz’s oriented section after Curie by Werlein, early 1890s’

An early and important quartz’s cut parallel section signed by Werlein and bearing the manuscript inscription “Quartz parallèle Mr Curie”. According with the Werlein’s label [Médaille d’or Exp de 1878 et 1889 Ivan Werlein Paris”], this Curie-section was made in the early 1890s’ so before the discovery of radioactivity thanks to the Curie’s method. In 1880, “The brothers [Jacques and Pierre] Curie thought there would be a direct correlation between the potential generated by temperature changes and the mechanical strain Read More...

Charles Chardin Electrotherapy device – Paris, ca 1910

This fascinating piece original of Charles Chardin, ( the name on the paper in the lid and on the beautiful porcelain battery ) the inventor of an electrotherapy technique, the ‘ECV’ method, which was used to cure diseases. Beautifully preserved with explanations and details,in the lid and on the battery remarkable object from Paris dimensions 16 X 14 X 6 cm Read More...

Charming Equinoctial Sundial Langlois aux Galleries du Louvre

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...

A very fine Hartnack drum microscope circa 1860

A very fine example of this classic from the production of Oberheauser and his successor Edmund Hartnack, a small drum microscope which screws onto its mahogany box. This model is signed on the tube: “E. Hartnack sucr de G. Oberhaeuser, Place Dauphine 21, Paris”. The serial number, engraved on the box, is 4332. So the microscope can be dated around 1860. The microscope is in perfect condition. It preserves two eyepieces numbers 2 and 3 and his triplet of achromatic lenses. In Read More...