M0015851: John Best: surgical instrument maker's trade-card / M0015852: Zachariah Carlton: cutler's trade-card

Date:
1957
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/142/2
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M0015851: John Best: surgical instrument maker's trade-card / M0015852: Zachariah Carlton: cutler's trade-card. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced March 2022: John Best: surgical instrument maker's trade-card
Previous title, replaced March 2022: Zachariah Carlton: cutler's trade-card

Description

Two images on one negative: the John Best trade card is probably 18th century and was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1922 and accessioned in 1923 (accession number 42394). The Zachariah Carlton trade card is from 1739

Publication/Creation

1957

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the items depicted in the glass plate negative: EPH611:1 and EPH611:5

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 2021.

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