Mid-20th Century Scientific Instruments

Vintage 1940s Belgian Kinetic Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Wire, Wood

Decorative 1940s molecular model used as education material in school and lab. The models are made of wooden balls and bacalite and metal wire manufactured in Belgium. For sale per...

Mid-20th Century American Industrial Scientific Instruments

Metal

Submitted for your consideration is this rare Rubicon Reflecting Galvanometer, circa mid-20th century. Presenting in the original wood (appears to be mahogany) cabinet housing with ...

Vintage 1950s Czech Scientific Instruments

A pair of Czech 10 x 80 military observation binoculars, with original tripod and transport case. Ten times magnification through 80 mm objective lenses. Adjustable height trip...

Nikko

Mid-20th Century Japanese Scientific Instruments

The pair of 20 x 120 World War II binoculars made for the Imperial Japanese navy by Nikko. Nikko was the parent company of Nikon, after 1946 the brand name was changed. The C...

Mid-20th Century Swedish Scientific Instruments

A pair of military binoculars by NIFE of Stockholm, Sweden. With 90° inclined oculars, magnified azimuth, and quick sight, polished and mounted on a later tripod. 8 times magnifi...

Vintage 1940s British Aviation Objects

Prismatic compass signed T.G. Co. Ltd London No. B 260407 1943 MK III, in use to the officers of the British army during the WWII. Complete with original leather case with shoulder s...

Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Scientific Instruments

Enamel, Steel

1950s Mid-Century Modern cash register with original cream colored enamel paint. This is not working, but it is a great display piece. This can be seen at our 302 Bowery location in ...

Vintage 1960s Italian Scientific Instruments

Box produced for educational purposes by the publisher Vallardi in the 1960s, containing 6 geometric non-dismountable solids made of wood (maximum height 15 cm): pyramid, sphere, cub...

Vintage 1930s Italian Scientific Instruments

Water level made in the 1930s in the Stabilimento Meccanico di precisione G. Allemano in Turin. Measures: Width 104 cm, height 21 cm, glass diameter 5,.3 cm. Measures box 38 x 20 cm ...

Vintage 1930s Italian Scientific Instruments

Topographic instrment with telescope diopter model 5163/64 made by La Filotecnica Ing. A. Salmoiraghi S.A. Milano in the 1930s, placed in its original oak wooden case with brass corn...

Vintage 1930s Swiss Scientific Instruments

Instrument to check the background of the eye made in the thirties complete with lens and placed in its original wooden case covered with black leather with velvet and purple satin i...

E.R. Watts & Son

Vintage 1930s British Aviation Objects

Prismatic compass; it's a small compass complete with original leather case, signed E.R. Watts & Son N ° 2739 MK IX 1935 supplied to British officers. Complete with compass card bloc...

Vintage 1930s British Aviation Objects

British aeronautical compass made in the 1930s of brass and glass mounted on universal joint and placed in its original oakwood box with brass hinges. Inside the lid you can see the ...

Vintage 1930s Japanese Scientific Instruments

A spectacular large and very impressive one of a kind 19th century Black Forest carving on pedestal of two babies. A finely carved pedestal supporting a beer barrel having two drunke...

Vintage 1930s German Scientific Instruments

Educational model of the Lamium purpureum L. (false purple nettle) flower made of painted papier mâché with a Bakelite base from the 1930s, German manufacture. Measures: Height 53 cm...

Vintage 1930s Italian Scientific Instruments

Model in enlarged section of a Moraceae syconium (fig for example is a syconium). The model is made of painted plaster and almost certainly made by Paravia in the 1930s. Measures cm ...

Vintage 1930s Italian Scientific Instruments

Model in enlarged section of the Moraceae syconium (fig for example is a sicon). The model is made of painted plaster and almost certainly made by Paravia in the 1930s. Measures cm 3...

Vintage 1930s Italian Scientific Instruments

Model in enlarged section of a Moraceae syconium (fig for example is a syconium). The model is made of painted plaster and almost certainly made by Paravia in the thirties. Measures ...

Mid-20th Century American Industrial Scientific Instruments

Metal

Jumbo metal thermometer used as a teaching tool in science class in the 1960s. The thermometer shows a red line for "Body Temperature" and a red line for "Freezing". Thermometer wo...

Vintage 1960s Italian Scientific Instruments

Box containing 14 detachable geometric solid solids of oakwood, height 20 cm, in their original wooden box complete with illustrative leaflet for the calculation of surfaces and volu...

Vintage 1940s American Scientific Instruments

Gold Plate, Brass

A US Navy MK I Quartermaster's Spyglass by arguably America's finest optics company, Kollmorgen Optical Corp. It is dated 1942 and has a 2? inch diameter objective lens with 16 power...

Vintage 1960s Italian Scientific Instruments

Box containing 14 dismountable geometric solids of oakwood, height 12 cm, in their original wooden box complete with illustrative leaflet for calculating surfaces and volumes. Made f...

Vintage 1940s British Scientific Instruments

Small brass English level with telescope signed T. Cook London No. 902 made in the forties. Complete with a compass with an engraved goniometric circle and a water level placed above...

Vintage 1930s British Scientific Instruments

English level with orthogonal telescopes signed Sitesquare Made in England in the thirties, painted aluminum. Height cm 14, diameter 5.5. Very good condition, fully functional.  

Vintage 1930s Czech Drawings

Colored lithograph applied on light cardboard depicting botanical study with various sections of Phormium tenax forest and of Agave Americana, Bohemian manufacture of the 1930s. The ...

Vintage 1930s Czech Drawings

Coloured lithograph applied on light cardboard depicting botanical study with various sections of Astragalus creticus Lam, Bohemian manufacture of the thirties. The black and light c...

Vintage 1930s Czech Drawings

Colored lithograph applied on light cardboard depicting botanical study with various sections of Phytelephas microcarpa R. et P. Bohemian manufacture of the thirties. The black and l...

Vintage 1930s Czech Drawings

Colored lithograph applied on light cardboard depicting botanical study with various sections of Artocarpus incisa Forst Bohemian manufacture of the thirties. The black and light col...

Vintage 1950s German Scientific Instruments

Didactic anatomical enlarged model of a molar tooth in section with triple root made of hand-painted rubber resin in ??Germany in the fifties and mounted on a bakelite base. Very goo...

Vintage 1950s German Scientific Instruments

Didactic anatomical enlarged model of a molar tooth in section with double root made of hand-painted rubber resin in ??Germany in the fifties and mounted on a bakelite base. Very goo...

Vintage 1950s German Scientific Instruments

Didactic model of a small heart removable in two parts and made of resin painted by hand and mounted on a metal base and black Plexiglas. Probably German manufacture of the fifties. ...

Vintage 1930s Swiss Scientific Instruments

Set with 12 metal instruments for ophthalmic surgery kept in their metal case with compartments. An instrument is engraved with a fish symbol and the number 3. A tool is engraved wit...

Vintage 1960s German Scientific Instruments

Didactic model of an enlarged human ear, disassembled in 5 pieces and complete with snail, made of painted cellon in the 1960s by the Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden. Very good cond...

Vintage 1960s German Scientific Instruments

Anatomic dermatological model which can be dismounted into 4 sections and made of painted rubber resin mounted on a wooden board. It shows the characteristics of the skin and hair bu...

Vintage 1950s German Scientific Instruments

Anatomic model of a mandible and a complete jaw of the lower and upper dental arch made in ??the 1950s, made of hand-colored cellon and mounted on a bakelite base. The jaw, which is ...

Vintage 1950s German Scientific Instruments

Didactic model of a human brain that can be dismounted into 4 parts placed on a base. Made of hand-colored resin in the 1950s by Somso, German company active since the second half of...

Vintage 1950s German Scientific Instruments

Didactic anatomical enlarged model of a human vertebra made in ??the 1950s, made of hand-colored cellon. On a label on the base you read Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden. Very good c...

Vintage 1950s German Scientific Instruments

Didactic anatomical enlarged model of a trachea made in the 1950s, made of hand-colored cellon and mounted on a bakelite base. On a label on the base you read Deutsches Hygiene Museu...

W & T Avery

Vintage 1930s English Scientific Instruments

A rare brass and steel mechanical standard yard comparator, in a mahogany case, by W. T. Avery of Birmingham. The brass standard yard is by De Grave, Short & Co of London and is ...

Mid-20th Century English Scientific Instruments

A Newtonian reflector telescope with an 8 ½ inch mirror, constructed by F. Burnerd & Co, Putney, London. Measures: Length of tube: 79 inches, 200 cm diameter of mirror: 8 ½ inch...

John Gordon Rideout, Harold Van Doren, Toledo Scale Company

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco More Furniture and Collectibles

Steel, Glass, Bakelite

Machine Age Art Deco Toledo scale by Van Doren & Rideout Rare Plaskon Housing Patented design by Harold Van Doren and John Gordon Rideout in 1934. Dubbed the "Sentinel Duplex Sca...

Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Busts

Laid Paper

An vintage anatomical wall head model for class. Made of synthetic material on a wooden plate, Germany, circa 1960. Measures: Width 9.06" (23cm) Height 12.8" (32.5cm) Depth 1.57...

Mid-20th Century English Scientific Instruments

Plastic

A cased set of Courtauld atomic models, by Griffin & George of London. Designs of Dr. G. S. Hartley of Courtaulds Ltd. in 1952. Scale: 20mm equivalent to 0.1nm. Griffin and ...

Stig Lindberg

Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Scientific Instruments

Teak

This is one of the most beautiful televisions we have ever seen. The streamlined cabinet was designed by either Bengt-Johan Gullberg or Stig Lindberg, both of whom had been commissio...

Mid-20th Century English Industrial Scientific Instruments

Two vintage metal English eye test instruments. Very interesting as decorative objects to hang on the wall or as curiosities on a table. Retaining the original paint and paper chart...

Vintage 1930s Polish Scientific Instruments

Iron

The original set of cast iron stands made in Poland in the 1930s. Originally, they were used to mount a steel rod or pipe, on which the exposition torso, presenting the clothing coll...

Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Scientific Instruments

Steel, Bone

A nice specimen acquired from a retired Podiatrist. Exact age unknown but was acquired in the early 1960s. Male specimen. In excellent complete condition except missing one tiny bone...

Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Scientific Instruments

Resin

Pre-War television relic, now a wonderful prop, with many decorative purposes. Adjustable height. Measures: W: 16 1/8 x D: 11 3/4 x H: 31 to 39.5 in.

Mid-20th Century German Industrial Nautical Objects

A chrome ship's clinometer made by world-renowned Wilhelm Ludolph/Institut Bremen of Germany and signed as such. These tilt gauges were used on vessels to measure the angular slant o...

Vintage 1950s Italian Scientific Instruments

Metric tape wheel or metric rib 10 meters long. It is an instrument used for measuring lengths and consists of a flexible tape on which the metric scale is trimmed, made in such a wa...

Vintage 1950s Russian Scientific Instruments

Suction psychrometer according to Assmann, an instrument used to measure the temperature and humidity of the air, Russian manufacture of the 1950s. This instrument was used to determ...

Dr. Louis Auzoux

Vintage 1930s European Scientific Instruments

Wood, Plaster

Unique circa 1930s vintage medical 62" size muscular instructional anatomical figure complete with internal organs (more info soon).

Vintage 1950s Italian Scientific Instruments

Small theodolite made of grey painted metal signed by Filotecnica Salmoiraghi Milano Made in Italy n. 65142 in the fifties and placed in its original metal case with the shape of a c...

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

Mid-century decorative globe model from Germany from the 1950s. Made for educational reasons, used for classroom demonstration and study. In good condition with signs of age and patina.

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Scientific Instruments

Steel, Bakelite

Extremely rare Rolex Art vibrator massage device, with original box and brochure, is a high end home vibrator from the mid-1930s. It sold in department stores and specialty shops. Bl...

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Chairs

In a great original shape a dentist or barber chair from the 1930 France, very elegant model and in a good working condition.

Vintage 1930s American More Furniture and Collectibles

Bakelite

Lone Ranger Radio manufactured by Pilot Measures 15 in x 9.25 in x 7 in deep Great collectors piece.

Vintage 1950s Polish Industrial Scientific Instruments

Iron

The original, mechanical medical scale from the 1950s, produced by Lubelska Fabryka Wag. Year of production: 1955 Construction: The body is made of cast iron. There is a L.F.W. co...