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SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ITALIAN GRAPHOMETER WITH CENTRAL SUNDIAL, constructed of sturdy brass, 16-9/16″ (42 cm) in overall width. This surveying graphometer has a mainplate with a large semicircular arc divided every half-degree and numbered every 5°; we note distinctive early hand-engraved numeral shapes, especially the 5’s. The plate is mounted with two small fixed sight vanes, and carries a rotating alidade which reads against the scale and which has its own pair of small vertical-slit vanes. This alidade is engraved Read More...

14 Feb

Rare device for making ice with water and fire

By Early Science

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Rare device for making ice with water and fire Rigora Philips 1925 Make ice using water and fire This very special device was made in the 1920s and was never marketed on a large scale, serial number 1466, because the electric refrigerator was made very soon after the invention of this machine. Another copy can be found in the private scientific museum of the Philips family, founded in 1891 in the Netherlands. The device works fine and is still Read More...

04 Feb

Early 17th century big size painted wooden hourglass

By Galerie Delalande Paris

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Painted wooden hourglass composed of two hexagonal bases resting on six ball-shaped feet connected by six straight columns carved in the shape of a rope, all painted in red and green. Inside there is a vial made of two clear bubble glass ampoules resting on two green painted wooden rings. These two ampoules are joined together by wax covered with black waxed paper and a waxed cord. A polychrome silica sand flows inside. Dimensions: height 34.7 cm x diameter Read More...

15 Jan

~THIRTEEN WOODEN LANTERN/SOLAR SLIDERS-LARGE FORMAT~

By Scientifica Opticae Inc.

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A good grouping/lot of thirteen magic lantern/solar microscope sliders of various manufacture, size, shape, language and wood types. 6 numbered and with dimensions 14 x 3 cm. in fruitwood (4 cell), 1 labelled and dimensionally 14 x 4 cm. in walnut (spectacular labeled samples-3 cells), 3 – 11 x 3cm. in fruitwood ( 3 cell), 1 -13 x 3.5 cm. in dark mahogany (3 cell), 1- 12.5 x 2.5 cm. in boxwood ( 3 cell) and finally 1- 12.5 x Read More...

17 Dec

19th century spherical wooden pill gilder

By Early Science

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This 19th century spherical wooden pill gilder in perfect condition, was used to finish the pills with a silver or gold coating. The pills were placed in the pill gilder together with gold or silver powder, put the lid on and then the pharmacist would shake and spin until there was a nice layer of gold on the pill In the 17th to the 19th century it was believed that a medicine worked better if it was coated with Read More...

09 Dec

A cased spring lancet by FISCHER Vienna, 18th century

By WissenschaftlichesKabinet

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first half of the 19th century. signed FISCHER on the instrument and signed WEIS on one of the lancets. made of brass, steel and horn. Comes in the original embossed leather covered case with tow lancets. Size: Length c. 7,5 cm From the famous FISCHER-family, that made bleeding instruments over generations in Vienna. Read More...

09 Dec

A Scarificator by Johann Jacob Fischer Vienna, mid 18th century

By WissenschaftlichesKabinet

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signed “joh. Jacob fischer in Wienn” made of brass and steel. condition: one screw missing, mechanics not perfectly working. Size: 3,5 x 3,5 x 4,5 cm. Another Joh. Jacob Fischer Scarificator which was dated “1755” was offered in 2006 at Dorotheum. The Fischer family made scarificator and lancets in Vienna until the second half of the 19th century. Read More...

09 Dec

Oil lamp with an illuminating globe shade, Bohemia, circa 1885.

By Hatchwell Antiques

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A late 19th century opalescent glass oil lamp with an illuminating globe shade by Stelzig, Kittel & Co, Bohemia, circa 1885. Countries and Seas indicated in German. Marked: Patent No.34409. (Austrian Patent Office). Burner made by Kosmos-Brenner. Height: 48 cm – 19 inches. Diameter: 19 cm – 7 ½ inches. (Scale: approx. 1: 67,000,000). For a similar globe see: Dresden State Art Collections, Inv. no. EGG 9. Stelzig, Kittel & Co. Glass manufactures, (1851-1945) – Steinschönau (Kamenický Šenov, Liberec Region of the Czech Republic). Read More...

07 Dec

Early Scarrifier bloodletting instrument 18 century in original case

By Early Science

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Early Scarrifier bloodletting instrument 18 century in original case in good working order Read More...

30 Nov

15 x 60 binoculars by Carl Zeiss Wien

By Hatchwell Antiques

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A pair of early 20th century Austrian Army 15 x 60 binoculars by Carl Zeiss Vienna. Marked: M 8/12 Z Doppelfernrohr 15 fach. Marked with rare later Bundeswappen coat of arms, HV (Heeresverwaltung) No. 37, and dated 1931. For more images see our website: https://www.hatchwellantiques.co.uk/optics/binoculars/15-x-60-binoculars-by-zeiss-wien-detail Read More...

28 Sep

BINOCULARS (TWIN TELESCOPES)

By Victor Burness

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In good working order. There is slight damage to the leather covering. No maker’s name. Read More...

25 Jul

Equatorial universal ring dial in brass signed Gensara Fecit Wienn

By Galerie Delalande Paris

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Equatorial universal ring dial in brass made for a number of central Europe cities engraved with their ancient names signed « Gensara Fecit Wienn ». In its gilt leather case bearing the coats of arms of Bavaria. Dimension : diameter 13,7 cm. Vienna c. 1730. Read More...