SOLD! $68,000
Dr. Earl Mindell is a pharmacist, writer and nutritionist who has spent his career advocating wellness and homeopathic medicine. Over the past 50 years, he has collected items from antique shops, private collections and antique markets all over the world. His collection features apothecary jars, mortar & pestles, hand-held scales, measuring beakers, old-fashioned toiletries, handwritten pharmacy ledgers, vintage drugstore signs, Parke Davis and Rexall antiques, Victorian era eye baths, inhalers, balances, tobacco pipes, figurines and so much more!
Three large rooms of his guesthouse were converted into a museum to display this magnificent collection. But Dr. Mindell decided it was time to move on, and sell the museum to a collector who could appreciate all the details - down to the stained glass window and cabinets.
Dr. Mindell was firm in his decision to sell the museum as one big collection, rather than splitting it up into smaller lots. It was all a matter of finding the right buyer.
And after almost a year, the collection has finally been sold! SHOPitLA is also happy to report that this museum will be recreated in its entirety by a pharmacist from Ohio and his very generous wife, who bought it for him as a gift!
We are so pleased that Dr. Mindell can see his fantastic collection off to a good home, where it is sure to be appreciated for years to come.
If you'd like to see more pictures from this one of a kind museum, please visit our Picasa web album.
1 comment:
In a way, for an art-lover like myself, decorating our home is quite easy. I just please myself mostly, with my poor husband going along with most of my choices. I am always collecting beautiful things, like handicraft decorative pieces, little sculptures and hangings.
And I simply hang lovely paintings in all our rooms. Not all are originals of course, as who can afford many of those.
I order many prints on canvas from wahooart.com who have a vast collection of images from Western art, that you can choose to make economically-priced prints like this Interior in Aubergines, by Henri Matisse, http://en.wahooart.com/A55A04/w.nsf/Opra/BRUE-5ZKCMX, from there.
I can choose the frames as well and my orders are delivered quickly to my home.
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