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Auction House:
Gowans Auctions
Number of lots recorded:85
Lots with images:85
Prices available:85
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*** Early Tasmanian album with samples of seaweed and mosses, printed label on front 'Sea Weeds and Mosses Collected At Port Arthur van Diemens Land 1836'. Handwritten note inside cover 'C. Frere' (possibly Captain Frere) ***
*** Victorian mahogany 5 door chemist shop cabinet 200 cm high, 212 cm wide, Variable Depth ***
*** Whale jawbone ***
*** Cary's terrestrial globe on stand, 1836 ***
*** Rare Australian cedar 19th century apothecary cabinet with roll down front & drawer in bottom, some bottles labelled Edgar S Wigg & Co., Homeopathic Chemist 12 Rundle St Adelaide ***
*** Victorian mahogany pharmacy cabinet with secret panel in back 37 cm high, 32 cm wide, 19 cm deep ***
*** Victorian mahogany pharmacy cabinet with gold hand painted advertising, 68 cm high, 77 cm wide, 26 cm deep ***
*** Unusual American oak dentist cabinet ***
*** Victorian mahogany & brass apothecary box 23 cm high, 26.5 cm wide, 19 cm deep ***
*** Pair Cox's miniature globes of the world 1838, 2nd edition (some damage) ***
*** Two whales teeth ***
*** Hobart Town Homeopathic Pharmacy cedar box & 6 bottles ***
*** Victorian mahogany & brass cased Pharmacist cabinet 24 cm high, 20 cm wide, 15.5 cm deep ***
*** An Admiral Fitzroys barometer ***
*** Three whale vertebrae ***
*** Boxed surgeons instruments, by Evans and Wormull London ***
*** Large whalebone tooth ***
*** Wooden Doctors case in the shape of a Gladstone bag with Medicinal contents, mahogany ***
*** Large whalebone tooth ***
*** Whale tooth and tortoiseshell box ***
*** American oak Pharmacy cabinet, made by the Tucker File Company New York 135 high, 107 wide, 54 cm deep ***
*** Rare possum skin rug ***
*** Victorian mahogany Stereoscopic Viewer, 47 cm long ***
*** Whales tooth, 19 cm ***
*** Victorian apothecary box with contents ***
*** Pair of whale rib bones, permit No: 282/16 ***
*** Bone loop/magnifier carved in the shape of a ships anchor ***
*** Possum skin rug ***
*** Three convict period apothecary bottles marked with broad arrow (Believed to be standard Issue for Naval Surgeon superintendents on convict transports) ***
*** Mahogany cased banjo barometer, W Cole Hobart Town and London ***
*** Pair of whale's teeth, 13 cm ***
*** Victorian inlaid banjo barometer ***
*** English china barometer, Negretti & Zambra London ***
*** Victorian mahogany pharmacists box 21.5 cm high, 21 cm wide, 17 cm deep ***
*** Copper measure stamped with broad arrow and British Ordnance ***
*** Cast iron Georgian Post Office cable marker Cast iron Georgian Post Office cable marker with raised G R + Crown, Ft + in & broad arrow, used to indicate distance to underground junction box ***
*** Boa constrictor skin ***
*** Georgian mahogany chemists travelling medicine cabinet ***
*** Brass & mahogany cased telescope ***
*** Abbott Hobart Town Barometer ***
*** Sperm whale tooth thimble, engraved 'Love and Virtue' ***
*** E. Rickard rosewood cased banjo barometer ***
*** Victorian mahogany Stereoscopic Viewer, 33 cm long ***
*** Taxidermy, small crocodile, 118 cm ***
*** Chemist Carboy, 50 cm high ***
*** Kangaroo skin rug/bedspread (Queen size) ***
*** Homeopathic medicine box ***
*** Sperm whale tooth, 12 cm ***
*** Sperm whale tooth thimble, engraved 'Love and Virtue' ***
*** Mahogany Doctors Medicine cabinet & contents ***
*** Brass based counter balance magnifier ***
*** Early measuring Surveyors wheel ***
*** 8 Homeopathic bottles ***
*** Brass telescope, made expressly for P.W. Pearce P.W.P. Senior, Broadhurst Clarkson & Co. Ltd 63 Farrington Road London E.C ***
*** Boxed set of Watchmakers samples ***
*** Brass telescope in leather case, W. Watson & Sons London, 1900 ***
*** W. H. Allen (Tas) pocket barometer in original case ***
*** Adams collapsible telescope in case ***
*** Victorian walnut stereo scopic viewer cards and hand held viewer ***
*** Whales tooth, 12 cm ***
*** Four section Victorian telescope, Ex-Optics, in leather case ***
*** 7 section brass telescope, naval, 9 cm (40 cm extended) ***
*** Mid Victorian pocket telescope with original box ***
*** Brass telescope in leather case ***
*** Large brass microscope and magnifier ***
*** Small whales tooth 9 cm ***
*** Phrenology Bust ***
*** Cased pocket barometer ***
*** 18ct gold mounted boars tooth ***
*** Four chemist bottles ***
*** Brass telescope in leather case, small, engraved W. Gregory 51 Strand London ***
*** Two platypus Skins ***
*** Two copper measures ***
*** Brass 4 section maritime telescope ***
*** Carved crocodile teeth, lapel posy holders ***
*** Four glass Chemist bottles, green ***
*** Four glass Chemist bottles, blue ***
*** Four glass Chemist bottles, red ***
*** Pair of mother of pearl opera glasses ***
*** Glass chemist bottle, ashbesters, damaged lid ***
*** Mother of pearl opera glasses, Lemaire Paris ***
*** Sterling silver spectacle case & spectacles, Birmingham 1900 ***
*** Mother of pearl opera glasses ***
*** Epns spectacle case and spectacles ***
*** Copper measure ***