We have always considered and collected these commercial masks and helmets as industries tribal art. Examples can be elegant in their simplicity or bazaar and complex. They are always unique, suprising and filled with personality.
Thomas Hall’s New French Glass Battery Medical 1800’s
Here is an 1875 antique style Grenet bichromate cell vintage glass battery that is pre Edison and was an important step in battery history. It’s an old physician’s battery with rare original glass bottles, one for wet cell, coil and sponge wands. Hall’s New French Battery paper applied inside lid and appears hand signed by inventor Thomas Hall. The real value in this type of kit is the often missing square glass battery. Self-contained, measures 8 x 6.5 x 6.75 inches… $475
