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C1909 Silver Cigarette Case with Bleriot Monoplane

We are offering a silver cigarette case with an enamel insert showing a Bleriot XI monoplane. This was the airplane in which Henri Bleriot was the first person to fly across the English Channel–a feat he accomplished on July 25th 1909. The case is of the same vintage. It has German guarantee marks and a “935” quality number; sterling at “925” is of lesser quality. No condition issues but the elastic bands that held the cigarettes in place have Read More...

18th century medicinal travel pharmacy chest

18th century medicinal travel pharmacy chest these types of chests were used on expeditions in the 18th century by horse or by ship This rare box contains 6 completely intact bottles with a plant painting on 4 sides, and 2 tin cans Box 13 Inch X 10 Inch X 8 Inch ( 33 X 25 X 20 Cm ) bottles 5.5 Inch high honey laudanum and digitalis were well-known examples of medicines that were taken with them This rare box Read More...

11 MAGIC LANTERN SLIDES circa 1810

Exceptionaly magic lantern slides – Napoléon 1er  47.5 x 10.5 cm Read More...

Hughes writing telegraph

Hughes writing telegraph.A  printing telegraph built by Siemens & Halske.This teleprinter was invented by David Edward Hughes in 1856.Good overall condition.The base is made in wrought iron,the top in wood and keys in white celuloid.A similar telegraph can be found at Saint Petersburg Museum-Rusia,Getty Museum USA ,Science Museum -England, Warshaw Museum-Poland.Size:120x75x55cm Read More...

Pyrus Malus flower model, R. Brendel

An Original “brendel Model”of the Pyrus Malus by retailer Phywe. the label gives: Pyrus Malus L. XII. flos / Apple-flower – Apfel Blüte – Melo flore – Pommier-fleur / verg. 5 Fach / Pomaceae / Original “brendel Model” / Nr 77002. In restored condition and 46 cm high. Look for shop information on www.vanleestantiques.com Read More...

BING USINE A VAPEUR circa 1900

BING USINE A VAPEUR  vers 1900 Belle machine à vapeur de marque BING dans sa boite d’origine mais sans le couvercle .   Hauteur totale : 34 cm ,  socle : 26 X 24 cm Read More...

STEAM FOUNTAIN E. PLANCK .

  STEAM FOUNTAIN E. PLANCK Very nice Ernst PLANCK brand steam toy circa 1890. Beautiful original condition, basin in sheet metal painted in imitation marble, upper part of the fountain in sheet metal painted in imitation stone, 2 brass dragons Complete and in its original condition (2 small welds added, the burner is missing). 40 cm in length, steam engine: 25 cm in height, fountain: 20 cm in height.-----------FONTAINE à VAPEUR E. PLANCK  Très beau jouet à vapeur de marque Ernst PLANCK vers 1890. Bel état Read More...

19th Century Microscope Nicol Prism Ocular With Goniometer

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

Table-Top Variable Power Telescope by Plossl of Wien , ca. 1835

The Austrian maker Simon Georg Plössl made these Galilean telescopes before 1738. In many cases, they were signed “Plössl in Wien,” but there are some known examples, such as this one, of unsigned instruments. Similar telescopes signed by Plössl in Wien van be seen on the following links: http://fp.optics.arizona.edu/antiques/telescope/Catalogue/T62/T62.htm https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/1935319/   https://www.cloudynights.com/gallery/image/115254-pl%C3%B6ssl-table-top-refractor/ The front lens is an achromatic doublet, and the four eyepieces on the revolver are negative focus singlets.  The telescope is generally in good condition with age scratches on the gilded Read More...

Johann Michael BURUCKER (1763-1813)

From a series of 6 hand-engraved and watercolored anamorphoses for a conical mirror circa 1790. Unfortunately the number 5 representing a camel is missing, so there are only 5 anamorphoses in superb condition in their original wooden box. Series extremely difficult to find complete. 16.5 x 16.5cm. Read More...

Waldau’s C1890 Full- Face Ophthalmophantome

Ophthalmophantomes were used to train eye surgeons. In this iron and brass example, animal eyes ( typically those of a pig) were clamped against the orbital rim by a spring. The head can be tipped baclward and into various postion.  Height extended:  13″ or  33 cm, approx. The glass eyes currently in the phantom are merely for display. Opthalmophantomes don’t turn up all that often and when they do the surface of the face is often a mess from Read More...

Celestial library globe signed Mattheus Seutter made in Augsbourg circa 1710.

A plaster library globe of watercoloured paper gores inside a brass meridian circle in its support formed by an equatorial table resting on four feet. The globe consists of twelve glued and watercoloured gores bearing Ptolemaic constellations with their names and the main stars. There are also the main circles: Equator and Ecliptic in red and divided into degrees, the two Tropics and the two polar circles in black. In the southern hemisphere there is a cartouche signed: “Globus Coeslestis in Read More...