M0018458EB: Silver gilt pap boat with cockle shell handle, 1810-1811 / M0018459EB: silver gilt pap boat, 1809-1810

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Pap boat-silver gilt, marked 1809-10

Photograph of two items: the rear side of a silver gilt pap boat with a decorated edge and cockle shell handle, date marked 18101-1811 and made by Crispin Fuller. And the rear side of a silver gilt pap boat with a decorated edge and cockle shell handle, date marked 1809-1810. The first was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1929 and accessioned in 1929 (accession number R29819). The second was acquired by the Musuem at an unknown point and accessioned in 1921 (accession number R14371). They are not held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: M0018458EA

February 1961

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: R29819 and R14371

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.

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