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To start the day we present a wonderful collection of Medical and Scientific Instruments. This sale includes a large group of medical and dental items, a very important collection of calculators and slide rules, office items such as early check punches and registers and pre-1950 spy and surveillance equipment Among the many highlights are a previously unrecorded 19th c. Ohio-made "Kwik Calculator", "McFarlanes Calculating Cylinder", " Higgins Patent [mechanical] Calculating Triangle", "Wheilon Calculometer, "Bair-Fulton American Calculator”, a “Pascaline Calculator”, etc; as well as a number of 19th-century and 20th-century slide rules including several special purpose rules for artillery, brewing and more esoteric applications. The office machine section includes check protectors such as the Abbott Automatic Check Perforator, Lightning Check Punch and the United States Check Punch, etc., plus an early mechanical envelope sealer. Pencil sharpeners are also present and among them are a: "Perfect Pencil Pointer" and a" Jupiter Pencil Mechanical Sharpener". Among the medical lots are Civil War-era amputation sets, a scarce cased Ammoniaphone, a number of rare ophthalmic items including a "Dr. Culbertson's Prisoptometer", many unusual quack devices, porcelain enemas, Anesthesia, ENT and urological instruments. Finally, the surveillance equipment section contains an FBI "black bag" and a cased US Army 1944 Signal Corps listening device. Something for everyone who collects science and technology! In addition we have a single owner collection of Red Cross Posters, Postcards and Ephemera, Early Medical related Books and more.
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210 - Troncet TotalisateurPhilip Weiss Auctions
c.1895 "TOTALISATEUR TRONCET POR LES NOMBRES ENTIERS" Metal device laid into book-like binder. Approx. 10.25" x 7.5" when ope...
Bidding Has ConcludedEstimate : 250.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor .. for (380.00 + 68.40BP) = 448.40
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210A - Troncet AirithmographePhilip Weiss Auctions
TRONCET ARITHMOGRAPHE SIMILAR TO LOT # 210. When opened approx. 8.75" x 5.5"
Bidding Has ConcludedEstimate : 250.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor .. for (170.00 + 30.60BP) = 200.60
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211 - Herring version of Webb AdderPhilip Weiss Auctions
J.L. HERRING 'PAT'D NOV. 5th 12th 1889" also signed "J.L. HERRING, NEW YORK, U.S.A." Nickel-plated cast iron with steel whe...
Bidding Has ConcludedEstimate : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold to floor .. for (260.00 + 46.80BP) = 306.80
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212 - Caulk X-Ray Film ChestPhilip Weiss Auctions
Early 20th century.10" x 12" x 4". Lead-lined wooden chest for keeping unexposed x-ray film.
Bidding Has ConcludedEstimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor .. for (45.00 + 8.10BP) = 53.10
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217 - Mixed Dental LotPhilip Weiss Auctions
including cased sample teeth and instruments
Bidding Has ConcludedEstimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor .. for (65.00 + 11.70BP) = 76.70
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218 - Mixed Medical LotPhilip Weiss Auctions
including early wooden x-ray tube stand, intubation set, cupping set, early vaporizer, unidentified cased Down instrument (ENT?),etc.
Bidding Has ConcludedEstimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor .. for (100.00 + 18.00BP) = 118.00
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