OFFICER'S CASE Leatherette-covered cardboard,... Lot 525

OFFICER'S CASE Leatherette-covered cardboard, opening with a flap revealing a shelf and two drawers lined with twenty-eight glass medicine bottles and tubes. Pharmacie Normale, 19 rue Drouot, Paris. Registered design. Early 20th century. Height. 19 cm; Width. 24 cm; Depth. 11 cm. The Pharmacie Normale, still in operation, has existed since the Rue de Drouot was cut through and extended in 1851, to reach the corner of Rue de Provence. Renovated around 1920, it became "La Pharmacie Nouvelle". Its numbering was changed when the Hôtel des Ventes was rebuilt. It once housed a laboratory equipped with the latest chemical, medical, micrographic and biological analysis equipment. A factory located at 8 and 10, rue Émile Zola in Saint-Ouen, enabled the pharmacy to manufacture and control all the products it dispensed, and to allow its customers to benefit from the reduction in Parisian import duties (Parisian import duties were not definitively abolished until July 2, 1943).