M0019960: Three bronze mortars each with one lug

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Three bronze mortars, one lug only.

From left to right: a mortar thought to be English or French, decorated with garlands, tassels and other devices; a mortar decorated with a coat of arms; an English or French mortar decorated with horses and eagles. The items were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at unknown points and given accession numbers A500492, A500491 and A500493 respectively.

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: A500491, A500492 and A500493

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.