Set of Medical Furniture and Instruments for Sale

Today while sauntering around antique and junk stores, I came upon a whole set of medical instruments and furniture.

There must have been some 40 or 50 different instruments, 2 large operating lamps, a small operating table, a larger table in metal and then a smaller trolley of sorts. I would guess the material to have been from immediately prior or post WWII. In any case, quite old as these things go and in good condition. The metal tops to the operating table and other table were gleaming clean and in nicely polished metal.

Asking price for everything was 2000 euros. Not much given what was all included, but it was a group sale. You buy all or nothing - though I did manage to buy one instrument - a sort of anal probe. The argument being that one instrument would not be missed from the lot.

I would suppose that it will all end up in someone's reconverted industrial loft, since everything except the instruments themselves can conceivably be used for 'normal' purposes. The operating and large tables would really fit in nicely with a modern hi-tech kitchen, or possibly in a dining-room. The smaller trolley can be used anywhere as could the operating lamps, even in a bathroom.

This is the second time within a short period that I've sen something of this medical nature for sale. And nothing in all the many years previously. Happenstance? Or changing awareness of what can sell?

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Wow, what I wouldn't give to live in Europe right now so I could buy such equipment for my fantasy late teens/early 20's doctor's examining room!

It looks like quite a stash.

It looks like quite a stash.

You're telling me ... ha ha.

I showed photos to my wife and even she agreed that the medical furniture alone would look great in a modern interior. This being aside from the medfet considerations which she doesn't seem to get anyway ...

It was for sale in a low end junk shop, though one that does a good business reselling to fancier and higher priced antique dealers. The price ranges in this store are low enough so that other dealers can afford to buy and resell. Especially the trendier shops. They often have a single industrial metal table for sale at prices from 1200 to 1500 euros, so the whole lot for 2000 is quite the bargain ...

I managed to buy one instrument (a sort of anal probe) and the lady who was proprietor sort of asked why the interest in that one. I said something silly about a hobby and getting hard to reach parts and so ... she didn't have an inkling of anything such as we think though ... and she was very nice letting me photograph the whole ensemble so that 'I could show it to my wife' ... which I actually did ... ha ha

I dunno why, but these photos gave me huge creeps. . .

Quite the stash indeed..

All of that and not a single speculum?