Medical and Scientific

Allan Wissner buys antique brass microscopes and accessories including: oil lamps, prepared slides, and slide cabinets. Other old medical and scientific instruments also wanted. Site includes articles on early microscopes.

Provides information on antique spectacles, eyeglasses, monocles, pince nez and lorgnettes. Also includes a virtual spectacles museum.

A comprehensive site devoted to antique spectacles and visual aids. Historical and educational links augmented with good pictures.

Sells antique bottles, old chemist and pharmacy supplies, labels, prints and oddities from the bygone apothecary.

Buying, selling, repair, and restoration of antique mercurial and aneroid barometers, clocks and watches. Also restore other types of antiques. Includes examples of stock. Located in Leominster, England.

A site for buying, selling and repair of scientific instruments including barometers, barographs, ship clocks, compasses and meteorology books.

A Canadian specialist in antique scientific and medical instruments since 1984.

A collection of antique tickertape machines which details the histors of Wall Street and the stock market.

Eye antiques display items from the ophthalmic past including glasses spectacles, ophthalmoscopes, microscopes, and eye exam items.

Sells a full range of scientific instruments, including globes and planetaria, mineralogical apparatus, microscopes and accessories, calculating apparatus, and physics demonstration apparatus.

Brass microscopes, optical and other scientific instruments, books about microscopes and microscopy.

Galleries of scales, weights, and measures. Scale tutorial, membership information and application.

A Kunstkammer collection of 'curiosities and wonders', where Renaissance and Baroque art meet science. Objects made from a variety of exotic materials are displayed with accompanying educational text.

Curious Science is a specialist dealer in medical, scientific and curiosity antiques from around the world. The shop is located in Fulham, London, UK.

Dedicated to the history of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and quackery as found in the antiques and art of the past. Introduction to the hobby and tips for beginners.