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Material: Wood
Vintage Teaching Aid Modell of An Ear - Somso ca. 1960
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Vintage Teaching Aid Modell of An Ear - Somso ca. 1960 A folding model of an ear. Used as teaching material in German schools ca. 1960. Made of wood and plastic by Somso, Germany. ...
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Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Plaster, Wood, Paper

Antique Wood Flower Mold Two Hole
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Antique Wood Flower Mold Two Hole 8.25 w x 3 d x 1.75 Original vintage condition unrestored See all images provided.
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Mid-20th Century Industrial Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

A botanic scientific specimen of Spruce, Paravia & co, Milan, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
A rare example of a botanical maquette for didactic use by Professor T. Ferraris, depicting a (natural) strobilus and a scale with ovules (about 12 times enlarged) of Spruce (Picea e...
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Early 20th Century Italian Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

Log Caliper, Made by William Greenleaf Company, Belmont, MA
By William Greenleaf
Located in Nantucket, MA
A large caliper for calculating the number of board feet a log will yield. The central wood shaft engraved with multiple scales on each of the four sides with a large metal mounted c...
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Early 20th Century American Rustic Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal

Antique Teaching Model Longitudinal Profile of the Grain
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique Teaching Model Longitudinal Profile of the Grain A great antique hand-painted model of the grain with removable germ. Made of papier ma...
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Early 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Plaster, Wood, Paper

19th Century Compass and Sundial Together
Located in Miami, FL
19th century compass and sundial together.
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Late 19th Century French Baroque Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

Signed 19th Century Mahogany and Brass Telescope on Custom Oak Wall Mount
Located in San Francisco, CA
An English mahogany and brass single draw telescope made and signed by William Bruce, Kings Head Court Shoe Lane London, circa 1830. This handsom...
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1830s English Georgian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Antique Teaching Model Stages of the Appendix, Ca. 1900
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A great antique hand-painted anatomical model of the appendix in different stages. It is made of plaster and mounted on a wooden base. Manufactured most probably by SOMSO or PHYWE, G...
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Early 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Plaster, Wood, Paper

18th Century French Louis XVI Giltwood Barometer
Located in Houston, TX
Lovely period French Louis XVI giltwood barometer with beautiful patina. This antique French Louis XVI gilt wood barometer will add a touc...
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Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Giltwood

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Hand Turned Wood Mortar and Pestle 1950
Located in Topeka, KS
Handsome Mid-Century Modern mortar and pestle hand turned from one piece of dense wood. It is in wonderful vintage condition. Please see photos, circa 1950-1960. Whether you need or...
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1950s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Vintage Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

Handcrafted Wooden Mortar and Pestle, Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Wooden footed mortar and pestle hand turned and carved from one piece of dense fruitwood. Handcrafted by artisan in Italy, hand turned wood Mortar and Pestle...
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Late 20th Century Italian Organic Modern Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood, Fruitwood

Clitograph level by Jules Lefebvre, Paris
Located in London, GB
Clitograph level by Jules Lefebvre, Paris, France, circa 1870. Rare tripod mounted model. With original tripod and case. Steel frame marked: NIVEA...
Category

Late 19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass, Steel

A botanic model of a fern Pteris serrulata, A. Dall’Eco, Italy 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
A rare botanical model by A. Dall'Eco di Pteris serrulata N.66 (Ferns. Sporangium and Spore). The round boxwood base contains 4 elements, components of a model of fern Pteris serrula...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Plaster, Boxwood

Two Large Wood Sterling Handled Magnifiers
Located in San Francisco, CA
Two Large Wood Sterling Handled Magnifiers One is marked Hull 4.25" x 1" x 17.5 4" x 1" x 17
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19th Century Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

Antique Teaching Model Longitudinal Profile of the Kidney, ca. 1900
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A great antique hand-painted anatomical model of the kidney. Made of papier maché and plaster, mounted on a turned wooden base. Manufactured most probably by SOMSO or PHYWE, Germany ...
Category

Early 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Plaster, Wood, Paper

British Admiralty Pattern Clinometer Inspectors Level
Located in Norwell, MA
World War II Bristish inspectors Mark III admiralty pattern clinometer by Watts and Son, London, England. The heavy brass relic is in a fitted hardwood case. The instrument consists ...
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1940s European Vintage Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Pair of molecular atomic structure models. Leybold, Germany, 1940.
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of molecular atomic structure models for chemical didactic use. The spheres are made of painted wood and represent atoms and a molecule. The bases are in turned and ebonized fru...
Category

Mid-20th Century German Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood, Fruitwood

Lithographic Print on Paper, Depicting the Male Genital System, France 1850 Ca
Located in Milan, IT
An anatomical lithographic print on paper, depicting the male genital system. Black lacquered fir wood frame with golden ramin wood batting. N. H. Jacob, Pari...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

Nineteenth Century Ships Octant
Located in Norwell, MA
Ships octant from circa 1850 with an engraved scale to 100 degrees. With peepsight, mirrors, colored lenses, etc. Fitted to a step up box. Some old repairs and replacement wood to li...
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1850s North American Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

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

Set of Three Victorian Set Squares, C. 1880
Located in High Point, NC
This is a set of three antique shipwright's set squares. The squares are made from rosewood and have brass caps. They are right-angled tools, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass, Steel

Early 20th Century Edwardian Travelling Tradesman Salesman's Soap Sampler
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A unusual travelling tradesman's soap display case, early 20th century in age likely Edwardian. A segmented internal draw hidden via the sliding cover,...
Category

Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Natural Fiber, Glass, Pine

French Mahogany Barometer with Thermometer by "L'Ingenieur Chevallier"
By Jean Gabriel Augustin Chevallier
Located in Pembroke, MA
Impressive French mahogany barometer and thermometer from the Louis-Philippe period (Circa 1840), by Jean Gabriel Augustin Chevalliier. The barometer features an indicator arrow adju...
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19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal, Bronze

An oversized brass silk scale with wooden stand, Italy 1850.
Located in Milan, IT
Ancient scale for weighing silk. Over a square wooden base weighted with lead with brass plaque and connecting element rise the tall wooden central part, made out of wood, with moved...
Category

Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass, Iron

Early 20th Century Belgian Black Board, Chalkboard
Located in Udenhout, NL
Early 20th Century Belgian Black Board, Chalkboard, in a good state.
Category

1940s Belgian Vintage Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Slate

Terrestrial globe apres Mr. Rizzi Zannoni, Paris 1762.
Located in Milan, IT
Designed to be hanged to the ceiling, terrestrial globe, made out of paper machè and wood, brass hook. It is reported in the cartouche of the globe: globe terrestre d’après Mr. Rizz...
Category

Mid-18th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Folding Boxwood & Brass Shoe Size Measure, circa 1880
Located in London, GB
A late 19th century folding cobbler's boxwood and brass shoe size measure, for the French market. With folding heel rest and slinging toe marker, with brass hinge. Paris point shoe...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Boxwood

Wall-Mounted Weather Station in Art Nouveau Style Carved Walnut 1910s
By A. de Lambert
Located in Verviers, BE
Wall-mounted weather station in carved walnut made in Belgium by A. de Lambert. High quality mechanism with jeweled movement barometer and thermometer (in centigrade) Unusual design ...
Category

1910s Belgian Art Nouveau Vintage Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Walnut

Large French 19th Century Scale
Located in Round Top, TX
A delightful 19th century large French Balance - or scale in copper, iron and wood used in the silk industry for weighing silk cocoons. A perfect kitchen island accent piece.
Category

19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Copper, Iron

Vintage Medical Device Wooden Case for Bleeding Needle and Loop Kit with Tin Can
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Medical Device Wooden Case for Bleeding Needle and Loop Kit with Tin Can. 0Original paperwork, solid wood case, 2 swing doors, tin metal...
Category

1930s Jacobean Vintage Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Tin

Antique Surveyor's Circumcompendium Signed Brand Frères, 1850-1880
Located in Bilzen, BE
"Antique Surveyor's Circumcompendium Signed Brand Frères, 1850-1880" Description: Antique Surveying Circumferentor by Brand Frères Brand Frères, Optic...
Category

Mid-19th Century Belgian Other Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

1940s Plaster Anatomical Heart Model on Wood Stand
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Instructional, anatomical, plaster, heart model on 7" diameter wood base, circa 1940s.
Category

Mid-20th Century American Industrial Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Plaster, Wood

19th Century Chinese Apothecary Balance Scale Stand
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Large Chinese carved wood apothecary balance scale with stand and storage drawer cabinet. It features beautiful carved fretwork on the top and sides...
Category

19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

19th Century Optician or Optometrist Test Glasses Lens Kit in Cabinet
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
19th Century Optician or Optometrist Test Glasses Lens Kit in Cabinet This beautiful Mahogany cabinet was used by a traveling optometrists to treat patients in their homes.  Th...
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Mahogany

19th Century Irish Giltwood Barometer in the Baroque Style
Located in Dublin, IE
A fascinating Irish giltwood barometer in the baroque style. The large stick barometer features a large carved giltwood frame with a shell motif. The dial having the original twin Ve...
Category

19th Century Irish Baroque Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Giltwood

Italian mid-century modern optometric board in wood and white plastic, 1960s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid-century modern optometric board in wood and white plastic, 1960s Rectangular-based illuminated table optometric board with structure in wood. On the front there are two w...
Category

1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood, Plastic

19th Century Artist Pigment Painting Tray, Colourmans Sales Sampler
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A collection of thirty red and white cylindrical card boxes of pigment with decorative descriptive labels. Each container sits within its own section of a well made pine tray. Origin...
Category

Mid-19th Century English Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Natural Fiber, Pine

A terrestral globe signed Périgot, published by Delagrave, Paris 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
A Medium-sized terrestrial globe, made of papier-mâché, finished with pastille and completed by the application of paper spindles imprinted with intaglio printing. Color touch-ups. T...
Category

Late 19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Mid Nineteenth Century Ships Octant
Located in Norwell, MA
Navigators octant with ebony frame, brass arm, filters and peep sight. Bone Vernier scale. Kidney shaped box. Split to box. Circa 1860. This is a good genuine example of an early American marine...
Category

1860s European Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Apothecary precision scale, travelling set, France 1890
Located in Milan, IT
Precision travel scale, pharmaceutical use. The box is made of oak wood. The scale can be completely disassembled and positioned inside the drawer. A lever allows you to lift the pla...
Category

Late 19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

Barograph by R Fuess
Located in Cheshire, GB
Mahogany framed barograph by R Fuess Berlin. The mechanical eight-day movement is housed in the drum, fitted with a seven-day chart which covers one full rotation of the drum. The in...
Category

Late 19th Century German Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Walnut

Barograph by R Fuess
Barograph by R Fuess
$1,321 Sale Price
34% Off
Late 19th Century Physics Teaching Wheel
Located in Santa Monica, CA
These educational wheels, with copper and black painted surfaces, were used by Physics teachers in the late 19th century. Please note we have two of these wheels available. One i...
Category

19th Century American Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Copper, Brass

French Louis XVI Carved Giltwood Mercury Barometer
Located in Norwich, GB
Louis XVI carved giltwood and painted mercury wheel barometer. Eight inch circular painted wood register dial with central rosette within the scale calibrated from 27-28-29 and ...
Category

1780s French Louis XVI Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Giltwood

Lithographic print on paper depicting the muscular system of a neck, France 1850
Located in Milan, IT
An anatomical lithographic print on paper, depicting a cross section of the muscular system of the neck. Black lacquered fir wood frame with golden ramin wood batting...
Category

Mid-19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

System walking stick with grain measuring the function, France 1820.
Located in Milan, IT
System walking stick: stick with grain measuring function. Oak wood barrel, graduated on the outside with brass nails. Iron knob, brass ferrule. By unscrewing the knob, a graduated i...
Category

Early 19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass, Iron

Pair of French Walnut Clocks & Barometers
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of French (Mid-19th Century) clock and barometer inset into carved walnut pendant frames. Crowned bearded male heads with decorative swags, scrolls, and floral wreaths. (PRICED ...
Category

Mid-19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Glass, Walnut

Terrestrial globe published by Ernst Schotte & co, Germany 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Terrestrial globe in watercolored paper, fixed with an inclined axis through a small brass arm, mounted on a black turned fruit wood base. Published by Ernst Schotte & Co. Berlin, Ge...
Category

Late 19th Century German Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Gimballed Brass Boat Compass by Dirigo
Located in Norwell, MA
Gimballed brass boat compass by "Dirigo" of Seattle, Washington. With fleur-de-lis pointing north. Fitted to a birch box with lid. Circa 1975. Overall Dimensions: 5" H x 8" L x 8"...
Category

1970s American Vintage Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Early Nineteenth Century French Thuya Wood Thermometer
Located in London, GB
An early 19th century French Thuya wood thermometer, with brass plate inscribed with 'Thermometre par Mouyer Nancy’. The thermometer tube is sat behind a br...
Category

Early 19th Century French Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass, Other

19th Century Spanish Copper Bedwarmer with Wooden Handle
Located in Marbella, ES
19th Century Spanish Copper Bedwarmer with Wooden Handle.
Category

Mid-19th Century Spanish Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Copper

Set of Oak Doctors Scales
Located in Cheshire, GB
Set of doctors scales for C.F Thakray Chemists. The solid oak seat with shaped back alongside cast balance scale. standing on square sports with pull out ...
Category

Early 20th Century British Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Oak

Set of Oak Doctors Scales
Set of Oak Doctors Scales
$2,423 Sale Price
45% Off
Contemporary Brass Telescope
Located in Astoria, NY
Contemporary Brass Telescope, on teak adjustable tripod base conjoined by central chain link stretcher. 62" H x 41" W x 30" D. Provenance: From a United Nations Plaza, Manhattan Esta...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Antique English Oak and Brass Postal Scale
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English oak and brass postal scale.
Category

Late 19th Century English Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Dr Forbes Specifications Bath Thermometer
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Dr Forbes Specifications Bath Thermometer A great piece, the thermometer has a beech Case so that it can be floated to show the numerical temperature and also the recommended from ...
Category

Early 1900s Edwardian Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Beech

19th C Surveyors Metamorphic Instrument Box/Table A very rare piece
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
19th C Surveyors Metamorphic Instrument Box/Table A very rare piece, the carrying box originally held many pieces of the surveyor’s equipment, t...
Category

19th Century Industrial Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Walnut

Antique Indonesian Mechanical Drill, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Long ago, an Indonesian artisan living on Lombok, an island well known for its weaving, made his living using this handsome hand-crafted drill. The antique tool is beautifully constr...
Category

Early 20th Century Indonesian Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Copper, Iron

Antique Aneroid Barometer
Located in Napa, CA
Category

20th Century Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

20th Century Terrestrial Globe by Peter J. Oestergaard
By Peter J. Oestergaard
Located in Madrid, ES
Early 20th century antique traditional Columbus earth globe, brass frame, papier mâché sphere and turned, ebonized wooden base. Gezeichnet & Hergestellt Peter J. Oestergaard.
Category

Early 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

Rustic Black Forest Walnut Barometer
Located in Queens, NY
Rustic Black Forest (19th Century) walnut wall mounted thermometer/ barometer with strap-work cartouche hung with an elaborate carved hunting trophy.
Category

19th Century German Rustic Antique Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal

Gorgeous Edwardian Inlaid Barometer by George Odell
Located in Dublin, IE
A gorgeous quality Edwardian inlaid mahogany barometer by George Odell, with beautiful marquetry detail of fan and shell motifs.
Category

Early 20th Century English Wood Scientific Instruments

Materials

Mahogany, Glass

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