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Eppler Anatomical Wax Model tongue

Anatomical wax model of the tongue Eppler Lehrmittelwerkstätten of the second half of the 19th century. The model is mounted on black painted wood. On the left upper corner a with signature ‘Hermann Eppler Lehrmittelwerkstätten Rudolstadt i/Thür’. Dimensions: 16,5 x 11 x 2,5 Find out more on www.vanleestantiques.com Read More...

Eppler Anatomical Wax Model the measles

Anatomical wax model of the measles of a child by Hermann Eppler Lehrmittelwerkstätten of the second half of the 19th century. The model is mounted on black painted wood. On the left upper corner a with signature ‘Hermann Eppler Lehrmittelwerkstätten Rudolstadt i/Thür’. Dimensions: 21,5 x 16 x 4 cm. Find out more on www.vanleestantiques.com Read More...

Ship’s taffrail log with rope and propeller – Ludolph, Bremerhaven

A ship-log records the distance traveled through the water. With the time in hours between the observations, it gives the ship’s speed in knots.  This Ludolph log with taffrail shoe, line and propeller, is made of brass with enamel dial. The clock has to be fixed on the rail at the stern of a ship, the taffrail. The recorder would have been connected with a line of about 60 meters to the rotator. Drum and tube shape are made of Read More...

Dry Card Compass – Neuenstadt, Koningsberg (Kalinningrad), early 19th c.

Attractive gimbaled dry card compass in a brass, yellow painted bowl. Wooden case of pine with sliding cover with dirty grey painted inside. Made by Georg Neuenstadt, Koningsberg, Germany (Kalinningrad, Russia). The inside of the bowl also dirty grey with four lubber’s lines. The rose is made of lacquered paper stiffed with mica and another layer of paper, which indicates an early compass. On the underside a strong and heavy needle and a name, difficult to read.Strong and heavy Read More...

Tectonic globe Kurt Ziesing

Rare tectonic globe made in the Eastern Germany by Kurt Ziesing, redacted by W. Thiele, and edited by VEB Herman Haack from Geographisch-Kartographisch Anstalt Gotha/Leipzig. The globe was made by Ziesing as a part of his thesis of the Institute of Cartography on the Technical University of Dresden that they decide to publish this thematic globe. After revisions by experts from the university of Dresden it was published in 1972. On the globe tectonic bodies are differentiated by colour, based Read More...

NUREMBERG MAGNIFYING GLASS 17th CENTURY WITH ITS CASE RIM EMBOSSED

THE COPPER  RIM READS ” J.E. MAY SEEL.ERE. IOH. HIERONIMUS SCHNEIDER 10H.ERHARD MAY SEEL.ERE. “ THE CASE WHICH IS ORIGINAL WAS LATER OWNED BY  JACOB FRIES, DATED 1813 , WHO WAS A PROMINENT FIGURE IN  PENNSYLVANIA, AND LED THE ” FRIES REBELLION” IN 1799. IT HAS THE ORIGINAL LENS  , WORKS WELL , IT HAS SOME SCUFFING. A RARE HISTORICAL PEICE       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...

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...

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...

Anatomical Torso model, C 1900

A anatomical model of the human torso. This anatomical wall model provides a sagital representation of the human head, larynx/pharynx, lungs and digestive tract. Similarly, the muscles of the torso are shown. The plaster and polychrome painted model is mounted on a wooden board. The hand-painted plaster model  is in good condition , measurements 70 x 35 x 5 cm. Look for shop information on www.vanleestantiques.com  Read More...