M0019953EB and M0019954EB: View of the maker's marks on two pairs of French obstetrical forceps

Photograph of a the maker's marks on two pairs of French obstetrical forceps. One pair is of the type introduced by Antoine Dubois in 1791. They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1915 (accession number R1396). The other is a pair is a a version of the Levret type II forceps marked with a crown and "H". They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and given accession number A500328. Related images: M0019953EB and M0019954EB

September-December 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: R1396 and A500328

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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