M0019957: Two bronze or bell metal mortars

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Bronze of bell metal mortars, one lug only

Photograph of two mortars each with one lug (handle). One was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and given accession number A500490. The other was purchased by the Museum in London at an unknown point and given accession number A12739

September-December 1964

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm photographic print; 9 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index cards for the items: A500490 and A12739

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.