M0019899: Two pairs of dental forceps / M0019900: Pocket case of dental scalers

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Dental forceps/Previous title, replaced July 2022: Pocket case of scalers

Photograph of two pairs of dental forceps and a pocket case of dental scalers. The forceps on the left are a protoype of the "Crow's Bill" forceps for stumps, 17th century. They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1918 (accession number R8574). The pair on the right have a strongly curved beak in line with the handles, 16th-17th century. They were acquired by the Museum in Paris in 1928 and given accession number A291. The early 19th century case of scalers is French. It was acquired by the Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1920 (accession number R11986)

July 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: R8574, A291 an

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.

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