Scientific Medical & Mechanical Antiques
Complete articles are posted from the journal, American Artifacts, on early microscope makers, hand corn shellers, early surveying instruments, a variety of quack medical devices, as well as information on early patents.

Antique Brass Microscopes Wanted
I buy antique brass microscopes and all kinds of microscope accessories including: microscope oil lamps, prepared slides, and slide cabinets. Old microscope related books and trade catalogs. Other types of old medical and scientific instruments also wanted.

Osborne's Antiques
Manufacturers and suppliers of barometer parts mercury tubes and thermometers for the repair and restoration of antique and modern barometers.

The Gemmary
Dedicated to serving the serious antique scientific instrument collector. Handles a full range of scientific instruments, Specializing Orreries and planetaria, Mineralogical apparatus, Microscopes and accessories, calculating apparatus, and Physics demonstration apparatus.

The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
Devious Displays of Quackery, Fraud, Deceit and Deception, collection of medical chicanery.

History of Science, Technology and Medicine
WWW Virtual Library for the history of science, technology and medicine. Source for collectors research information.

Medical Antiques Online
Collection includes images and descriptions of stethoscopes and other medical items.

Moody Medical Library
Online exhibit of historical microscopes with images and descriptions of over 40 microscopes, ranging from the 1760s through the 1920s.

Museum of Microscopy
Site contains a museum of classical microscopes ranging from the first European microscopes built in the sixteenth century to modern microscopes from around the world.

EBL Historical Collection
Images of medicine-makers advertising cards.

Scales and Weights
A collection of all types of historical scales and weights from different periods of the past 3000 years.

Here Today, Here Tomorrow
Online exhibit of varieties of Medical Ephemera.

ars machina.com
Buys and sells antique brass microscopes and telescopes. Credit Cards accepted.

Scientific Instrument Collectors Database
A Windows database template for the serious collector of scientific instruments, and tools. Provides a powerful research and insurance documentation tool cross-referencing instruments, makers, publications, resources, images and signatures.

Simon Weber-Unger.
Austrian dealer of antique medical and scientific instruments including globes.

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

M&R Gordon
Dealers in antique medical and dental instruments and related material for collectors.

Scientific Instrument Collection
Collector selling collection of antique and nearly antique scientific instruments.

Gilai Collectibles
The unconventional collector's paradise. Rare WWI surgical sets, unique scientific instruments, antique tools, elegant inkwells, and equipment.

Medical Surgical and Bloodletting Antiques Collector Resource
Educational site for collectors and those interested in Antique Medical, Surgical, and Bloodletting Instruments. We help match people help with item possessing these antiques with people who desire them! We identification also.

I Buy Antique Microscopes
I buy antique brass microscopes and all kinds of microscope accessories including: lenses, parts, microscope oil lamps, prepared slides, slide preparation equipment, and slide cabinets. Also needed are old microscope related books and trade catalogs. Other types of old medical and scientific instruments are also wanted.

Alex Peck Antique Scientifica
A resource site of antique medical, surgical, dental, and Civil War medical related artifacts (Medical, Surgeon, Bloodletting, and Stethoscope. Fine examples are pictured with authoritative descriptions in an archive.

Some Early Microscopes from the Optical Institute in Wetzlar
Carl Kellner founded what was named the Optical Institute in Wetzlar Germany in 1849. By 1851 he employed twelve workmen and was producing his first microscopes.

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

International Society of Antique Scale Collectors
The International Society of Antique Scale Collectors (ISASC) was founded in 1976 so that people who collect antique scales could form friendships, correspond, meet with each other, and enhance the pleasures of collecting. ISASC members are located in the U.S., Canada, and a number of other countries around the world.

Pre-1870 American Surgical Sets
Dr. Michael Echols presents extensive information on Civil War surgical sets with photos of a large collection of American made surgical sets. Identification, pricing, and comparison of various sets.

Brass Telescopes shown for sale
NYSPYGLASS.com if full of beautiful brass instruments inspired by the Victorian era.

Quicksilver Barometers - Sale, Repair & Renovation
English seller and repairer at a high quality and consistent with the original specifications of the device.

Medical Antiques Collector
This website is to illustrate the fine craftsmanship of the past and to put this great talent in perspective of the traditions of the times - the contrast is often dramatic as you will see.

Artifice - Antique Scientific Instruments
Retails antique brass microscopes, telescopes, surveying equipment, calculating devices and other apparatus.

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

The Barometer Shop
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.

Health Physics Instrumentation Collection
Photos and descriptions of radiation-related items from the past, including dosimeters, electroscopes, ionization chambers, radioactive sources, safety posters, quack cures, geiger-mueller counters, fluoroscopes used to fit shoes, and x-ray apparatus.

American & Civil War Surgical Amputation Sets
Information and photos of American made surgical and amputation sets made between 1800 and 1870. Detailed data on Civil War surgical sets as well as advice on how to collect and price medical antiques.