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Material: Wood
Late 19th C Gregory Bottley Scientific Collection of Mineral Fossils Shell
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A good collection of Gregory Bottley mineral, fossils and shell all contained in there original teak trays and card board sleeves. Each specimen has its original hand written and nu...
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Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Natural Fiber, Hardwood

Decorative Antique French Vineyard Injector by Vermorel, Circa 1880
Located in Dallas, TX
More information coming soon… Manufactured by Vermorel circa 1880, this bronze injector was most likely the property of a French vineyard in the 19th century. A t-shaped wooden han...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal, Brass, Copper

Paravia Optical Cassette Complete with Lenses and Teaching Apparatusu2028 -Italy- 1960s
Located in Milano, IT
Paravia, scientific instruments, vintage educational kit, 1960s, Norstedts, magnetism, optics, thermology, mechanics, applied electricity, top vintage lab, educational set, experimen...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal

Antique Mortar, Wabi Sabi Style, Scandinavia 1800s
Located in Hønefoss, 30
Wooden Wabi Sabi Mortar from Scandinavia, circa 1800s. In good vintage condition showing beautiful patina from age and use.
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19th Century Swedish Romantic Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

Set of Vintage Mortise Gauges, Four, Rosewood, Brass, Carpenter s Tools
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a set of vintage mortise gauges. 4 English, rosewood and brass carpenter's tools, dating to the mid-20th century, circa 1950. Fascinating midc...
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Mid-20th Century European Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Paravia Collection 100 Rocks, Educational Material, Italy 1950s
Located in Naples, IT
Collection 100 Rocks, Teaching Material, Italy 1950s Geology teaching board "Minerals and Rocks" G.B. Paravia Scientific Collection - Turin The ...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Rock Crystal

20th Century French Iron, Walnut Spotlight, Cinema Floor Spot Lamp by Clémançon
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A grey-black, vintage Mid-Century Modern French spotlight made of handcrafted lacquered iron, designed and produced by Clémançon in good condition. Th...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal, Brass, Iron

Wall-Mounted Weather Station in Art Nouveau Style Carved Oak By R. Krengel 1910s
Located in Verviers, BE
Wall-Mounted Weather Station in Art Nouveau Style Carved Oak By R. Krengel 1910s Eupen Belgium High quality mechanism with jeweled movement barometer and thermometer (in centigrade)...
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1910s Belgian Art Nouveau Vintage Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Oak

Three-Dimensional Anatomical Midcentury Wall Plaster Sculpture, Germany, 1950s
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Midcentury three-dimensional anatomical plaster painting representing human respiratory system, provenance Hygiene Museum Dresden with museum sticker ...
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1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Plaster, Wood

Precision demountable scale for travel, France 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Apothecary traveling scale entirely demountable. All the pieces fits inside the front drawer. Oak wood box, brass elements and glasses. Glass protection sides. France 1880.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Scientific tool for demonstrating the refraction of light, Italy 1920.
Located in Milan, IT
Scientific tool for demonstrating and assessing the refraction of light. Constructed in boxed metal with a square section, it consists of a horizontal tube that bends a few grids in ...
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Early 20th Century Italian Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal

19th Century French Giltwood Barometer
Located in Richmond, VA
19th Century French giltwood barometer with working thermometer. Well executed carvings of scrolls, swags and bounty all finished in gold gil...
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19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Giltwood

English Stick Barometer by Worthington of London
Located in New Orleans, LA
This exceptional English stick barometer is a classic example of these intriguing meteorological instruments. Crafted by the esteemed Worthington & All...
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19th Century English Georgian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Mahogany

Paravia Termology Cassette with Original Instruments - Italy - 1960s
Located in Milano, IT
Paravia, scientific instruments, vintage educational kit, 1960s, Norstedts, magnetism, optics, thermology, mechanics, applied electricity, top vintage lab, educational set, experimen...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal

Antique French Country Primitive Carved Marble Mortar and Pestle on Wood Base
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Please message us with your zip code to request a more reasonable domestic U.S. shipping quote. Antique French Country Primitive Carved Marble Mortar and Pestle on Solid Wood Primit...
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Late 19th Century Unknown Other Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Marble

Antique Draw Knife and Mezzaluna Knife c.1860-1900
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT Antique 12 inch draw knife with wooden handles and one mezzaluna knife with Beech handles. Brass collars. CREATOR Unknown. DATE OF MANUFACTURE c. 1860-1900. MAT...
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19th Century Industrial Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Steel, Brass

Impressive Antique Brass Dolland Co. Telescope With Case for Restoration
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Large antique Dolland & Co brass telescope with labeled wood box with accessories as shown. Engraved brass lens G. Dollond, London. Comes with tall wooden stand or smaller brass tri...
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19th Century English Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Large Vintage Mongolian Wooden Standing Math Abacus with Painted Wooden Balls
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large Vintage Mongolian Wooden Standing Math Abacus with Painted Wooden Balls. Item features painted wooden balls in red, purple, gray, orange, blue, yellow, green and brown. Circa M...
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Mid-20th Century Unknown Primitive Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

19th Century Anatomical Model of Dissected Wax Head Mounted on Framed Board
Located in London, GB
Antique Anatomical Model, Anatomical Wax Model, Antique Wax Head, Medical Antique, Anatomical Antique, Vintage Anatomical Model, Antique Cabinet of Curi...
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Late 19th Century German Gothic Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

Electrostatic machine by Wimshurst, designed by Rinaldo Damiani, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Electrostatic machine by Wimshurst, a British engineer and shipowner, designed in the 1880s, created by Rinaldo Damiani, a builder active in Venice between the end of the nineteenth ...
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Early 20th Century Italian Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal

French 19th Century Gilt and Painted Barometer
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
French 19th century painted and gold-gilt barometer and thermometer. It is a recognizable ‘banjo’ shaped scientific instrument with all the carved details ...
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19th Century French Rococo Revival Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Glass, Wood, Giltwood, Paint

Three-Dimensional Midcentury Anatomical Wall Plaster Sculpture, Germany, 1950s
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Midcentury three-dimensional anatomical plaster painting, provenance Hygiene Museum Dresden with museum sticker label, Germany 1950s. Please note tha...
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1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Plaster, Wood

Regency Lane’s Pocket Globe, Dated 1818
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A 3 ½ inch Regency Lane’s pocket globe, dated 1818, the terrestrial globe with the seas in light green and the land masses outlined in darker green, contained within a hinged black shagreen case, the concave interior of the case applied with the engraved celestial charts...
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1810s English Regency Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

Ptolemaic Armillary Sphere Charles-François Delamarche Paris, 1805-1810 Circa
Located in Milano, IT
Charles-François Delamarche Ptolemaic armillary sphere Paris, circa 1805-1810 Wood and papier-mâché covered with printed and partly hand-coloured paper It measures 15.74” in height, ...
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Early 1800s French Empire Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Paper, Wood

Large 24 Piece Antique Mechanical Drafting Set Original Fitted Metal Case
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This large and substantial antique mechanical drafting set most likely originates from Germany and dates to approximately 1900 and done in the period Edwa...
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Early 20th Century German Edwardian Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal

American Mahogany and Brass Ship Binnacle, Riggs Brothers, Phila. Circa 1880
By Riggs Brothers
Located in Charleston, SC
American mahogany ship binnacle with a brass-mounted dome helmet, internal dry compass by Ritchie of Boston, flanking removable burners with the original fonts and resting on an octa...
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1880s American American Empire Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Vintage Fuller s Calculator, English, Mathematical Instrument, Stanley London
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage Fuller's Calculator. An English, beech and brass cased mathematical instrument by Stanley of London, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1950. Quality mathematic...
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1950s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Beech, Paper

Antique Ophthalmoscope Gowllands ‘May ophthalmoscope improved’. England, 1940.
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Gowllands Ophthalmoscope "May's Improved Ophthalmoscope". Wooden box covered with paper. The top is stamped in gold 'MAY'S OPHTHALMOSCOPE'. Inside the box is divided into com...
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Mid-20th Century English Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal

A terrestrial seven inches globe, signed Felix Delamache, France 1845.
Located in Milan, IT
Engraved wooden and paper maché globe. Equator resting on four quarter meridians on a turned black fruit wooden base with moved profile and circular base. The globe is composed of tw...
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1840s Italian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

French 18th Century Louis XVI Period Giltwood Barometer Thermometer
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant and extremely decorative French 18th century Louis XVI period giltwood barometer thermometer. The most decorative barometer thermometer retains its original glass pane enc...
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Giltwood

19th Century Portable Wooden Sundial
Located in Madrid, ES
Charming portable sundial crafted in engraved wood, dating from the 19th century. This compact timekeeping instrument exemplifies the practical elegance and craftsmanship of traditio...
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Mid-19th Century Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Fruitwood

English Mahogany Prince of Wales Banjo Barometer, Circa 1820
Located in Charleston, SC
English mahogany four dial banjo barometer with broken arch pediment, steel engraved face with Prince of Wales motif, and original rotating bone dial. Barometer can be restored to wo...
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1820s English George III Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Steel

Equal Arm Brass Scale with Weights
Located in Houston, TX
This equal arm brass scale is set on a wooden platform with brass weights. The wooden platform has circular cutouts for the weights This piece is functional and beautifully. The wood...
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19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Equal Arm Brass Scale with Weights
Equal Arm Brass Scale with Weights
$1,100 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Rosewood and Bronze Push Drill Brace
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT Antique push drill brace with Rosewood wooden handle and bronze collar. CREATOR Unknown. DATE OF MANUFACTURE c. 1860-1900. MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Bronze, Stee...
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19th Century Industrial Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Steel, Bronze

Antique Edwardian Oak Weighing Scales
Located in London, GB
A charming and highly collectable antique Edwardian Oak Weighing Scales, made in England and dating from the 1900-1910 period. It is of fine quality and has a wonderful design. The ...
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Early 1900s British Edwardian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Leather, Oak

Ancient anatomical model of the hand, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Anatomical model for schools, educational use, depicting the hand swinging on a fork supported by a black lacquered wooden base. Made of plaster and finished entirely in colour. Ital...
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Early 20th Century Italian Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Plaster, Wood

1880s French Carved Wood Barometer
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1880s French carved wood barometer. Does not work.
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1880s Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

Intriguing Set of 4 Spanish Wooden Molds Used in Shaping Toile and Other Soft
Located in Round Top, TX
An intriguing set of 4 Spanish Wooden Molds used in shaping toile and other soft metals. A wonderful collection for any bookcase or table top. Super patin...
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Early 19th Century Spanish Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

18th Century French Louis XVI Giltwood Barometer
Located in Sheffield, MA
A stunningly beautiful 18th century French gold gilt barometer is a weather instrument with mercury-filled glass thermometer still in working order...
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1790s French Louis XVI Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

Pair of 19th Century Brass Parabolic Reflectors
Located in Chicago, IL
In the 19th century, parabolic reflectors such as these were employed in scientific experiments to study the behavior of light, heat, and sound. These brass parabolic mirrors, when p...
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19th Century American Victorian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Antique F.W. Braun Apothecary Balance Beam Scale c.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT F.W. Braun antique apothecary balance beam scale in a Mahogany display case with three adjustable copper feet, solid brass scale, Bakelite and copper knobs, and enamel maker's...
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Early 20th Century American Industrial Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal, Bronze, Copper, Enamel

Italian Artist s Mannequin from the 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
This elegant Italian artist's mannequin from approximately 1900 is a beautiful representation of craftsmanship from the 19th century. Crafted from solid fruitwood, it stands as a tes...
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Early 1900s Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Fruitwood

Vintage Carl Zeiss Theo 010 Theodolite Tripod Case mid 20th Century
Located in London, GB
A stunning and highly decorative Carl Zeiss 'Theo 010' theodolite Numbered 223278. Complete with a fitted oak case and oak tripod, dating from the mid 20th Century, This vintage Zei...
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Mid-20th Century Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Oak

Field level no. 148 by Pasquale Cittelli. Italy first half of 19th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Field Level No. 148, instrument for architects or engineers, made of brass and glass. Complete with original oak box. Includes a folding and extendable oak tripod and a tubular canva...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal, Brass

Vintage Teaching Aid Modell of an Ear - PHYWE ca. 1930
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Vintage Teaching Aid Modell of an Ear - PHYWE ca. 1930 An antique folding model of an ear. Used as teaching material in German schools ca. 1930. Made of wood and plaster by PHYWE, G...
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1930s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Plaster, Wood

Antique L. M. Ericsson AC110 Iron Skeleton Telephone Taxen Eiffel Dachshund #3
Located in Sweden, SE
Desktop telephone model AC 110 (Old catalogue No. 375) made by L. M. Ericsson, Stockholm in period of 1895-1910. A legendary model that enjoys special attention from collectors. Size app.: 30 cm (roughly 11.8 in) high, 27 cm (roughly 10.6 in) wide, 14 cm (roughly 5.5 in) deep. Quite good condition, age and usage wear, attritions, damages, losses of 2 feet out of 4, original finish! Please study high-res pictures for cosmetic condition! In person actual item may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 6 kg it is going to measure some 8 kg packed for shipment. Lars Magnus Ericsson began his association with telephones in his youth as an instrument maker. He worked for a firm which made telegraph equipment for the Swedish government agency Telegrafverket. In 1876, aged 30, he started a telegraph repair shop with help from his friend Carl Johan Andersson. The shop was in central Stockholm (No. 15 on Drottninggatan, the principal shopping street) and repaired foreign-made telephones. In 1878 Ericsson began making and selling his own telephone equipment. His phones were not technically innovative, as most of the inventions had already been made in the US. In 1878, he made an agreement to supply telephones and switchboards to Sweden's first telecom operating company, Stockholms Allmänna Telefonaktiebolag. Also in 1878, local telephone importer Numa Peterson hired Ericsson to adjust some telephones from the Bell Telephone Company. This inspired him to buy a number of Siemens telephones...
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Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal, Brass, Bronze

A trunk style travel apotecary cabinet in mahogany wood and brass, England 1790.
Located in Milan, IT
English travelling apothecary made of mahogany Sipo mahogany (Entandrophragma utile) and brass with a rectangular base, a front drawer, an opening to...
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Late 18th Century English Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

A Copernican armillary sphere, Paravia, Milan, Italy 1930
Located in Milan, IT
A Copernican armillary sphere made of iron, paper, brass and wood, with the Sun inside, and the Earth on the outside, made of wood and covered with paper. Pedestal made of turned and...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass, Iron

An old ophtalmology device, Italy 1950.
Located in Milan, IT
An old Italian ophthalmological device with a table with backlit letters, to test eyesight. Sbisa, company founded in Florence in 1869. Case in wood and glass. The electrical system ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Glass, Wood

Very Large George III Rosewood Gallery Magnifying Glass
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A very large George III rosewood gallery magnifying glass, the circular glass within a rosewood frame, the baluster handle screwing into a brass bra...
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Early 19th Century English George III Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Large Antique Mid 19th Century Mahogany Magnifying Glass
Located in Bishop s Stortford, GB
A rare Large Victorian Magnifying or Looking Glass, Made from Mahogany Wood all in origianal condition. Known as a gallery glass it allows gentle magnification of items from variable...
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Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Mahogany

French Louis XVI Barometer
Located in Queens, NY
French Louis XVI (18th Century) barometer with original scientific illustrations and mercury vial framed with gilt foliate carvings & ebonized ...
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Giltwood, Glass

Antique Teaching Aid Median Incision of the Human Head, Ca. 1920
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A great antique hand-painted and hand lettered anatomical model. A median incision of the head for class. It is made of wood, papier maché and plaster, manufactured by SOMSO or PHYWE...
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Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Plaster, Wood

Antique Teaching Aid - Structure of the Human Skin, Plaster on Wood
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique Teaching Aid - Structure of the Human Skin, Plaster on Wood An antique hand-painted anatomical wall model depicting the structure of the human skin with roots of the hair. T...
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Early 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Plaster, Wood, Paper

Modernist Barometer, French, circa 1930 s
Located in London, Fitzrovia
Modernist Barometer, French, circa 1930's, well designed, working order.
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20th Century French Art Deco Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

American Nautical Brass Yacht Binnacle Mounted in Mahogany Case, Circa 1890
Located in Charleston, SC
American nautical mahogany yacht binnacle with a hinged locking oval glass viewing port, original removable brass side light burner with font, brass carrying handle, and fitted with ...
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1890s American American Empire Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Louis XVI Giltwood Barometer
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Of typical form‚ the giltwood body centered by a circular barometer dial flanked by pillars ending in flame‚ above a thermometer flanked by foliate branches‚ surmounted by swags.
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Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

Louis XVI Giltwood Barometer
Louis XVI Giltwood Barometer
$7,500 Sale Price
40% Off
19th c. Giltwood Barometer
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carved and Giltwood Louis XVI Style Barometer
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19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Giltwood

A pair of celestial and terrestrial globes, E.Pini, Gussoni Dotti, Italy 1892.
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of Italian globes. On an ebonized wooden base, worked on the lathe, with a circular foot and perfect patina, are placed: a celestial globe of 9,2 inches, compiled by the enginee...
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1890s Italian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

Hand Carved Coquille Nut Egg Box 19th Century Flea Trap Pomander Needle Case
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A beautiful hand carved coquille nut egg box. Beautiful carving, great patina, unscrews at center to open. The original use was a flea trap, things were d...
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1880s English Victorian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood