M0019951EB and M0019952EB: Views of the maker's marks on two pairs of obstetrical forceps, mid 18th century

Photograph of the maker's marks on two pairs of obstetrical forceps acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point. One pair is a Levret type II pair of forceps and was given accession number A158135. They are now held by the Science Museum (object number A158135). The other is a pair of forceps made by Dumay, Paris. They were accessioned in 1915 (accession number R1411). Related images: M0019950EA, M0019951EA

September-December 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for one of the items: R1411

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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