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JULIUS DRESSLER AMPHORA TEPLITZ NOUVEAU VASE
16.5"x7.5" Monumental Art Nouveau vase in cream and gold glazes with limp poppy decor. Signed with Dresslers mark, minor stress hairline in base. A real classic beauty. |
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PA20 |
PRE WWI AUSTRIAN AMPHORA SHEPERDESS PLANTER
13"x18"x11" Beautiful and austere at the same time, this lovely shepherdess stands sentry over her keep, 7 sheep. Excellent condition, pre WWI Amphora mark. |
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PA21 |
DRESSLER NOUVEAU TEPLITZ AMPHORA VASE
12"x10"x10" Julius Dressler, Teplitz, Amphora, Amphora vase. Dual handled, with a Nouveau floral design on both sides of this burgundy tinted milk chocolate glazed vase. A real beauty. Excellent condition. |
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PA23 |
JULIUS DRESSLER AMPHORA AUSTRIAN VASE
13x6" Julius Dressler Amphora gold and white vase. This Austrian vase is a true beauty. Stands tall in a cream and gold glaze. Mild finish wear, otherwise in excellent condition. Signature is somewhat obscured. Numbered 1187. |
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PA24 |
AMPHORA NUDE DIANA THE HUNTRESS
14x17x9". The tired Goddess rests after the hunt, bounty at her feet, dogs still excited. Pre WWI Amphora mark, Austria. Tail repair, otherwise excellent condition. Signed M. Morte. A rare beauty |
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PA25 |
MONUMENTAL NOUVEAU AMPHORA MAIDEN
32x12x7" Monumental Amphora Art Nouveau beauty. Classically poised, this turn of the 20th century, sexy Greek/Romanesque babe invites us seductively. Marked Amphora, Austria, with the Austro-Hungarian royal mark. Excellent condition. |
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PA26 |
NAUTICAL NOUVEAU AMPHORA TEPLITZ VASE
Ornate & richly decorated Teplitz lamp base vase, flanked by sea dragons w/ an etheral poppy & dragonfly design. Rendered in pink, rose, greens, & lt. blue, on a bone background, w/ gold highlights. Drilled, otherwise excellent condition. Nouveau beauty. 13.5"x10", Designed by Alfred Stellmacher, (Edwards father) & founder of what was to become the Ernst Whaliss co. Manufacturers mark obscured by lamp drill hole restoration. |
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PA27 |
JULIUS DRESSLER AMPHORA AUSTRIAN VASE
8.5x15" Monumental and beautiful cream/gold Art Nouveau Dressler vase. Still the most underrated of the Amphora group manufacturers. Pristine condition, slight gilt wear. Hand-signed #530, stamped 630, initialed A.Y.
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PA28 |
DRESSLER AMPHORA NOUVEAU CANDELSTICK
5x4.25x7.75" Beautiful cream & gold Julius Dressler, Egyptian motif, Art Nouveau candlestick with match holder. |
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PA30 |
STUNNING AMPHORA COPTIC EGYPTIAN BUST
7.25x6.5x12.5" Only numbered, but clearly an Amphora masterpiece. Thrice, molded, sculpted, & applied ornamentation, this heavy walled ceramic beauty, smiles blithely. Her necklace is of pseudo gold nuggets. Numbered #1075, pristine condition. |
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PA31 |
Monumental post WWII Amphora Vase
7 x 7 x 15.5 Monumental post WWII Amphora Vase with colorful bands of floral pattern in vibrant hues of pink, blue, and golden orange. The rest of the body is a mottled beige/gold, slightly textured glaze, the rim a deep cobalt blue. Imprinted with the numbers 15665 and 32 and numbered XVI, along with the the Amphora stamp, on the bottom. Rim chip repair, otherwise excellent condition. |
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ANTIQUE BRASS MICROSCOPE SPENCER
12x4x6" Early 20th century brass & iron Spencer Optical microscope. Three turret, 10x, 44x, & 95x oil immersion, objectives, 6 & 10x eye pieces, diaphragm, mirror, complete, missing one slide stay. Has good optics, comes in the original box, has 3 objective tubes, & a neat unopened bottle of Crow immersion oil, 1920's vintage. |
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Leitz Sm Lux Phase Contrast Microscope
Famous owner, (Byron Waksman) Phase contrast microscope, excellent condition, professionally serviced. 10x Periplan NF eyepieces, complete with Leitz Phase objectives, Phaco 10,25,40, & a rare 10x oil. All 170mm tube length. Phase condenser has 5 annulus. I bought this from friends or relatives of Byron Waksman, who's father was the renowned Selman Waksman. I removed the university stickers before I knew who he was. I also have some prepared slides that belonged to Selman, they will be a separate listing.
SELMAN A. WAKSMAN (1888--1973)
(excerpted with permission from The Foundation for Microbology)
Selman Abraham Waksman, whose insights and discoveries had so profound an effect on the well-being of people around the world, was born of Jewish parents in the village of Novaya Priluka, Russia (now the Ukraine), on July 22, 1888. His childhood experience with anti-semitism and with the abortive revolution of 1905 convinced him that he could not fulfill his dreams and realize his potential in Czarist Russia.
Waksman emigrated to the United States in 1910, settling in Metuchen, New Jersey. In 1915 he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers University. The next year, he became a U.S. citizen and received his M.S. degree in agriculture from Rutgers. His crucial decision to enter an agricultural rather than a medical course was guided by Dr. Jacob G. Lipman, a bacteriologist who was dean of the College of Agriculture and himself an immigrant from Russia. Courses in bacteriology with Lipman and summer projects with Dr. Byron David Halstead, a plant nutritionist and geneticist, helped to define Waksman's future career. He carried out his master's project at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, the institution where he spent essentially his entire scientific life, studying soil fungi and especially soil actinomycetes, organisms almost entirely neglected by others that became a mainstay of his subsequent work. His first public presentation, with R.E. Curtis, another graduate student was Bacteria, Actinomycetes, and Fungi of the Soil, to the Society of American Bacteriologists (later to become the ASM) at Urbana, Illinois, in December 1915.
Waksman obtained a Ph.D. in biochemistry in two years, working with T. Brailsford Robertson at the University of California at Berkeley, and returned to Rutgers in 1918 as a lecturer in soil microbiology. He married his childhood sweetheart, Bertha Deborah Mitnik (Bobili), on 4 August 1916. She went with him to California and they returned to live, first in New York, then in New Brunswick, N.J., close to Rutgers. Their only child, Byron Halsted, was born 15 September, 1919.
When Waksman began work in his own laboratory, microorganisms were of known importance in medicine as causes of disease, in public health in connection with sanitation problems such as water purification, in traditional food processing (making of bread, cheese, wine, beer, and vinegar) and agriculture (fertility of the soil). They were responsible for food spoilage and, on a larger scale, for degradation of all animal and plant remains, returning the fundamental building blocks carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen to the air and soil in the great cycles of Nature. They were yet to show their value in industrial production of vitamins, enzymes, and antibiotics.
The first phase of Waksman's research dealt with the extension of his work on actinomycetes and with organisms involved in sulfur oxidation, carried with Jacob S. Joffe and later continued with Robert L. Starkey, who became a lifelong associate and friend. He regarded the isolation of Thiobacillus thiooxidans (Waksman and Joffe, 1922) as his most important scientific discovery before the antibiotics. In his later work, he was aided by a growing and ever-changing group of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Waksman traveled widely in the 1920's and 1930's and carried out systematic studies of peat bogs and composts throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. He became an adviser on the commercial development of composts, particularly for mushroom growers. He developed a consultative relationship with many industrial concerns that produced enzymes, vitamins, and other products from fungal and bacterial sources. He was thus a forerunner of the entrepreneurs in today's highly developed biotechnology industry.
In 1931, Waksman developed a laboratory for the study of marine microbiology at the Oceanographic Institute, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where he and some of his students worked each summer over the next twelve years. His work on protecting ship bottoms against fouling, in collaboration with the U.S. Navy, represented a significant contribution to the U.S. war effort. Waksman served as chairman of the War Committee on Bacteriology, under the aegis of the Society of American Bacteriologists, and was elected president of this society in 1941.
In 1939 Waksman and his colleagues undertook a systematic effort to identify soil organisms producing soluble substances that might be useful in the control of infectious diseases, what are now known as antibiotics. Waksman was stimulated to initiate this program by the discovery of tyrothricin by his former student Rene Dubos. His own profound knowledge of all classes of soil microbes, the actinomycetes in particular, made such a move almost inevitable and the growing threat of World War II provided an additional rationale for his involvement. He developed simple screening techniques and, guiding graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, applied these to a variety of samples of soil and other natural materials. Within a decade ten antibiotics were isolated and characterized, three of them with important clinical applications: actinomycin in 1940, streptomycin in 1944, and neomycin in 1949. Eighteen antibiotics were discovered under his general direction.
Waksman was an extraordinary scholar and bibliophile. He was author or co-author of over 400 scientific papers and various obituaries and reviews, as well as twenty-eight books. His most notable books include Enzymes (1924), with W.C. Davison; Principles of Soil Microbiology (1927); The Soil and the Microbe (1931), with R.L. Starkey; Humus (1936); Microbial Antagonisms and Antibiotic Substances (1945); My Life with the Microbes, an autobiography (1954); The Conquest of Tuberculosis (1965); and the posthumous The Antibiotic Era (1975). His scholarship as a scientist and teacher was embodied in a massive compendium, the second edition of his Principles of Soil Microbiology, published in 1932. This book, refused by many publishers who could not believe that it had a market, became a best-seller and dominated the field for several decades. He later wrote biographies of two of his scientific heroes: Winogradsky, a lifelong friend he regarded as the true founder of soil microbiology (1953), and W.M.W. Haffkine, a Jewish scientist whose contributions some decades earlier were turned into tragedy by bigotry and persecution (1964).
The many awards and honors that were showered on Waksman after 1940 culminated in the Nobel Prize and the Star of the Rising Sun, bestowed on him by the emperor of Japan in 1952. Other notable honors included membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Legion of Honor (Commander) of France, the Order of the Southern Cross (Commendatore) of Brazil, the Grand Cross of Public Health of Spain, corresponding membership (later foreign associate) of the French Academy of Sciences, the Lasker Award, the Amory Award of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Trudeau Medal of the National Tuberculosis Association (U.S.). |
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ST5 |
Mint Reichert-Jung BioStar 1820 Microscope
Almost new, Reichert-Jung BioStar 1820 Inverted Biological Microscope.
Objectives:(1)Plan Achro 4/.12, (1)Achromat 10/.25, (1)3006 6.5/.2, (2) 10x WF Eyepieces
Features: 5-Position Nosepiece, Y-Axis Controls, Built-in Illuminator
Power: 120V, 60 Hz, 0.25A
Includes (1) Multiple-Tally Denominator #10714-2 |
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Mint Reichert-Jung BioStar 1820 Microscope
Reichert-Jung BioStar 1820 Inverted Biological Microscope, almost new condition.
Objectives:(1)Plan Achro 4/.12, (1)Achromat 10/.25, (1)3006 6.5/.2, (2) 10x WF Eyepieces
Features: 5-Position Nosepiece, Y-Axis Controls, Built-in Illuminator
Power: 120V, 60 Hz, 0.25A
Includes (1) Multiple-Tally Denominator #10692-2
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Fisher Scientific accuSpin Micro R Centrifuge
Fisher Scientific accuSpin Micro R
Year: 2005, Kin. Energy: 1650 Nm, Serial No.: 40473590, CAT.-No.: 75005542, Voltage: 120 VAC, Frequency: 60 Hz |
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ST9 |
Lab Glassware-Beakers Assorted Sizes
21 Pyrex Glass Scientific/Chemistry Beakers in the following sizes and quantities: 2000ml (2), 600ml (1), 100ml (1), 400ml (1) 250ml (14). Some of the beakers are labeled in the appropriate spot on the side, but all are in Excellent condition. |
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Lab Glassware Pipets in Assorted Sizes
New and unused glass pipets in the following sizes and quantities: 1x1/10ml (3 cases of 250, plus an additional 1/2 case in plastic wrapper- 875 total), 10x1/10ml (3 cases of 100), 5x1/10ml (3 cases of 100). Volumetric Measurements clearly marked on each pipet. |
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Lab Glassware Volumetric Flask 2000ml
Lab Glassware Volumetric Flask in excellent condition. Pyrex glass, 2000ml capacity with meniscus printed on the flask's neck. |
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2 Lab Glassware Graduated Cylinders 100ml
Two (2) 100ml Graduated Cylinders for Scientific/Chemistry measurements. Excellent condition, measurement labeling perfectly in tact. |
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