Everything from the kit I put on display!! Even the 666 Thimble and thread so Awesome!!

Embalming Kit Arrived!!

My embalming kit from the late 30's early 40's finally arrived! As I opened the box the excitement was building I could hardly contain myself! as I opened the one side I saw the undertaker supply company lids and the jars! Each Time i opened a drawer I found more and more stuff! from tro-cars, to scalpels to all the make up and drying powers!  I have been going through this kit for the last hour in a half and still finding more and more!!  I will post pics very soon! of everything!  This kit has so many surprises to the thread and needles to the thimble that says 666 on it!

Stay Tuned!

MORE TO COME!!

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Bottle of Protozone (Full) New Addition

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Blauds Iron Pills (New Addition) (Full)

The first iron pills were commonly known as Blaud's pills, which were named after P. Blaud of Beaucaire, the French physician who introduced and started the use of these medications as a treatment for patients with Anemia.

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Human Sideshow Freaks!

These are people who made a living as Side-Show Freaks, Most had physical disorders and had no alternative way of making a living.

                                Joseph Merrick – The Elephant Man

Born in 1862, Joseph Merrick developed a physical disorder that caused his limbs to grow extremely large when he was five years old. He joined a side-show attraction in 1884 where he was treated well and earnt a large sum of money. A visiting doctor saw him there and made arrangements for him to live a better life. It now believed that Joseph Merrick actually suffered from Proteus Syndrome and not elephantiasis as is commonly thought. Merrick died at the age of 27 from suffocation while he slept.

                              Mademoiselle Gabrielle – The Half Lady 

                                                

 Born in Basle, Switzerland, in 1884, Gabrielle Fuller first joined the circus at the Paris Exposition in 1900. She traveled with the Ringling Brothers Circus and appeared at Coney Island’s Dreamland sideshow. She was married at least twice, once to a man named John de Fuller. She had a perfectly formed upper body which ended smoothly just below the waist.

              Juan Baptista dos Santos – The Man With Two Penises

 Jean (or Juan) Baptista dos Santos is said to have been a “Gipsey”, born in Faro, Portugal around 1843, to normal parents with two other normal children. His career as an exhibitionist seems to have been confined strictly to medical circles; in 1865 turned down a sum of 200,000 francs to appear for two years with a French circus. He possessed two functioning penes and three scrota, the outer two of which each contained a single testis. Dos Santos claimed that the central scrotum had also contained a pair of fully-formed testes, but that these had retreated into his abdomen when he was ten years old.

                                      Martin Laurello – The Human Owl

The man who we have come to know as Martin Laurello was born Martin Emmerling in Nuremburg, Germany around 1886. He began to perform his act in Europe when in his 20′s and brought it over to America in 1921. He appeared several times at Coney Island and worked also for Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey’s sideshow. He also worked for Dick Best’s Royal American Shows and as late as 1945 was appearing with Ripley’s shows along with “Popeye Perry” and “Junior Stiles”, 7-year old Lobster Boy. 

                                   Myrtle Corbin – The Four Legged Lady

Josephine Myrtle Corbin was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1868. She was born a dipygus, meaning that she had two separate pelvises side by side from the waist down. The extra legs were part of a twin that did not split correctly, like Frank Lentini with his third leg. Each of her smaller inner legs was paired with one of her outer legs. She was said to be able to move her inner legs, but they were too weak for walking. She had four daughters and a son.

                                  Mary Ann Bevan – The Ugliest Woman

Mary Ann Webster was born in London, England in 1874, one of eight children. As a young woman she worked as a nurse and in 1903 married a greengrocer named Thomas Bevan. Shortly after getting married, Mary Ann began exhibiting symptoms of acromegaly, a form progressive giantism that causes abnormal growth and distortion of the facial features, as well as headaches, failing eyesight and joint and muscle pain. The Bevans had four children before Thomas’ death in 1914.

                                               Wang – The Human Unicorn

In 1930, a Chinese farmer from Manchukuo was discovered by an expat Russian banker. The Russian was able to take a picture of the man and he sent the snapshot off to Robert Ripley of ‘Believe It Or Not!’ fame. Known only as Wang, or sometimes referred to as Weng, the farmer was normal in every respect except for the fact that he possessed a fourteen-inch spire-like horn growing from the back of his head. Ripley offered a huge cash reward to anyone who could produce Wang for an appearance in his Odditorium. However Wang disappeared from the public eye in the early 1930′s and was never heard from again.

                      Madame. Clofullia – The Bearded Lady of Geneva

Madame Clofullia was born Josephine Boisdechene in Switzerland. She was born hairy and reputedly had a two-inch beard at the age of eight. At the age of fourteen she began to tour Europe, first accompanied by her father and an agent and then with her father alone. In Paris she met painter Fortune Clofullia and eventually married him. She also gained extra fame when she fashioned her beard in the imitation of that of Napoleon III. In return, the ruler gave her a large diamond.

                                              Lionel – The Lion Faced Boy

Stephan Bibrowsky was born in Poland in 1890 to normal parents. He suffered from hypertrichosis, a rare genetic disease that covers the entire bodies of the subjects with a thick coat of fur. Only about 50 cases of the disorder have been documented since the Middle Ages. In the case of Lionel, six-inch-long hair covered his body. He was discovered by a German man named Meyer when he was four years old and became famous throughout Europe where he gained the nickname of Lionel the Lion-Faced Man. Far from being exhibited as a beast, he wore often the best clothes to show that under his hairs he was a literate and enjoyable person that spoke five languages.

                                            Ella Harper – The Camel Girl

This is the text from Ella Harper’s pitch card. A pitch card was an advertising flyer for attractions at a sideshow.

“I am called the camel girl because my knees turn backward. I can walk best on my hands and feet as you see me in the picture. I have traveled considerably in the show business for the past four years and now, this is 1886 and I intend to quit the show business and go to school and fit myself for another occupation.”

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newest addition! Zepyrol

Found this at the Rocky Mountain Antique Mall! It was hidden in a corner and the label caught my eye! This is a Healing Antiseptic! For the mouth! IT says it's a liquid that reaches all the Crevices! and the bottle is almost full! I love going to search for things like this! and you walk out with something and barely spent a dime! This is a nice addition to my constantly growing collection!

 

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Finished Painting!!

Finished Painting My condo!   Painted everything interlude purple, and the rest sterling grey! Really brought it all together!!

Painting my house!!

Decided to paint my house and started with a feature fall and gonna paint the whole thing this week!

                                                              Heres the before!!

                                                                       After PICS

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Jeffrey-Fell Company Buffalo New-York Syringe Case 1901!

Finally Came in!! has all the vials and 4 needles!! :p

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Bonus from my home mortician kit!

The seller contacted me saying, they got it mid way through the auction the embalming certificate of the guy who owned the case!  His name is Earl, and was certified on september, 10, 1935  in Texas!! So Awesome!!

Pics!

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Charles Camsell Indian Hospital Key!

The hospital was an "Experimental Hospital" run by Canada's Indian Affairs and the United Church was known as the "Indian Hospital". Stigma surrounds the hospital as it is alleged that the aboriginal population was treated poorly, abused, and murdered. It is also alleged that south of the building near what used to be the staff garden is a mass grave of aboriginal children, though when officials questioned about this it is denied and stated that most of the people that died in this hospital were buried near a residential school in St. Albert north of Edmonton. These rumours and others regarding hauntings of the hospital are based more in urban legend than fact.

The hospital was closed and abandoned in 1996. The building and grounds as of 2009 sit empty!

                                                                       The KEY!!

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Antique Home Morticians Portable Embalming Kit!

 All the embalmer's tools of the trade are here in one kit, just like they used out on a site after leaving the funeral home to work with the 'Dearly Departed'.  This kit is quite a nostalgic wonder in it's own right.  I could feel the ambiance when I went through it to take the photos.  Lots of trocars, draining tubes with valves, hoses, tools like scalpels & hemostats, needles of all kinds, vintage makeup tools and compounds, one tool looks to be an authentic ivory file, hoses, blood or fluid jars with tops, old cosmetics and sterilizing bottles. One side is the embalming side of the kit, the other is the make up kit side. 


Here are the photos!!

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