M0019774: Bronze depilatory forceps, Middle Bronze Age Period

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Bronze depilatory forceps ( Middle Bronze Age Period)

Photograph of two pairs of depilatory forceps from the Middle Bronze Age Period. One pair were found in Denmark. Both pairs were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1936 (accession numbers R8324/1936 and R8790/1936)

January 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provide entries for the items: R8324/1936 and R8790

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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