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HIGH POWER BINOCULARS, probably French, c. 1900. The brass system opens from 5-3/4″ to 8-1/2″ (15 – 22 cm) long, the parallel tubes hinged for adjustable calibrated interocular separation. Cleaned but good. Read More...

15 Nov

ATOMIZER

By TESSERACT

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For sale, antique French atomizer, c. 1900, 5″ (13 cm) long, striped blue and white glass and cast metal. Excellent. Read More...

14 Nov

THE CALCULATEUR DIDELIN

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THE “CALCULATEUR DIDELIN,” French, c. last quarter 19th century, “Brevete France S.G.D.G. et Etranger.” The 19-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ x 2-1/2″ (50 x 22 x 6 cm) softwood case, with hinged lid and sides, contains a system of five lithographed tin rollers, plus a hinged overlay plate with a total of 150 (!) windows opened and closed by 30 independent shutter slides. The rotating tubes (for units, tens, hundreds, thousands, and ten-thousands) are printed with interest due for 30 different Read More...

13 Nov

THE TACHYLEMME, A PATENTED CALCULATOR

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THE “TACHYLEMME,” French, c. 1880, signed “C.L. Chambon, Inventeur; Lith. Baster & Vieillemard, 97, B’t. Port-Royal, Paris; Approuvé par la Societe d’encouragement pour l’industrie Nationale.” This patented calculator has a fine 4″ x 6-1/2″ (10 x 16.5 cm) polished wood body with ebonized wood base, beveled glass top, and plated metal frame. The lithographed panel displays, through windows, the printed numbers on four cylindrical rollers for 1’s, 10’s, 100’s, and 1000’s. There are windows for percentage rates (of interest, Read More...

11 Nov

Dental hygienic set, French C 1810

By Van Leest Antiques

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A nice cased dental home hygienic set, French C 1810 The case ( 13,5 x 8 x 3 cm) is domed wood case is bound in red Morocco leather and lined in green silk and original mirror in the lid. The leather hinge is broken. It has six fitted compartments holding tools exquisitely crafted in silver-plated silver, steel, and mother-of-pearl. There is a wonderful toothbrush, a tongue scraper, folding gum knives, and double compartmented box for dentifrice, etc. Condition Read More...

10 Nov

OPISOMETER

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OPISOMETER, French for the English market, c. early 20th century, “Depose H C,” 4-5/8″ (12 cm) long, plated, “Inches to Miles or Verstes” and “Centimetres to Kilometres,” very fine. Read More...

09 Nov

2 Gigli amputation chain saw, one is marked

By Nautilus Antiques

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2 Gigli amputation chain saws, one is marked “Charriere”, in good condition. I can only notice that on the chain signed Charriere the release mechanism of the chain (one ring) is currently stucked, I didn’t forced it (= the chain cannot be separated by one of the 2 handles) The one marked “Charriere” SOLD already. Read More...

09 Nov

A nice French Hey saw, trepanning, by Charriere

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A nice French Hey saw, for cranial trepanning, by Charriere Read More...

07 Nov

A French amputation tourniquet by Charriere

By Nautilus Antiques

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A great French amputation tourniquet by Charriere, in very good condition (and well used, blood stains in the red strap) Read More...

06 Nov

THE CALCULIMETRE CHARPENTIER

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THE CALCULIMETRE CHARPENTIER, French, c.1900, signed “Calculimetre, G. Charpentier, Brevete S.G.D.G.” The 2-3/8″ (6 cm) diameter calculator is made of nickel silver and brass, divided with logarithmic, square root, tangent and sine scales on both sides, the suspension affixed to twin cursors and a frontal circular scale. A milled edge allows one to rotate the main body against this suspension assembly. Condition is fine, the surface somewhat cleaned and scratched. The Charpentier calculator, a fine pocket slide rule, is Read More...

22 Oct

Late Nineteenth Century French Sunshine Recorder by Jules Richard of Paris

By Jason Clarke Antiques

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For sale, a Late Nineteenth Century French designed sunshine recorder or Heliograph by Jules Richard of Paris. Comprised of a black painted metal base with three brass screw feet for levelling, the sunshine recorder’s clockwork mechanism is mounted on a second plate hinged to the base at one end with an arc scale to one side to allow for fixing and fine adjustment of its angle. The clockwork barograph type drum is engraved with a twenty four hour dial in roman Read More...

03 Oct

UPSIDE DOWN COMPASS FROM 1763

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TELL-TALE COMPASS, French, c. 1763, signed on the marvelous floating compass card “Se vend chez J. Perre Maître Poulieur & Faiseur de Compas à Dunkerque 1763” (“For sale by J. Perre, Master Pulley-Maker and Compass-Maker in Dunkirk, 1763”) and “Gravé par Brochery.” The 5″ (12.5 cm ) diameter printed card is pinned to a bar-shaped needle, and held secure with red sealing wax. Additional wax was applied to the rear to level the card. There is printed Read More...