M0013746: Pair of miniature ear-trumpets, 19th century

Date:
October 1954
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WT/D/1/20/1/123/36
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M0013746: Pair of miniature ear-trumpets, 19th century. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced January 2022: Pair of miniature ear-trumpet

Description

Pair of miniature brass (gilt) ear-trumpets to be hidden under hair, "F.C. Rein & Sons, patentees, sole inventors and only makers. 108, Strand, London". The items were purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1932 and given the obejct number A139040. They are held by the Science Museum (object numbers A139040/1 and A139040/3)

Publication/Creation

October 1954

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the object registration card for the items: object number A139040 (image 41)

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Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

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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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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