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

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

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Zachariah Carlton: cutler's trade-card

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

1957

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

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

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.

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