M0015869: Two trephination braces with maker's marks , 18th century

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Trephination braces Lesueur mark.

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Trephination braces; B Grangeret, Paris, mark: crown.

Photograph of sections of two trephination braces, one with Lesueur's mark, a crown and device, and one with Grangeret's mark, a crown and "H". The Grangeret brace was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1928 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R2946/1936). The other was purchased by the Museum in 1929 and accessioned in 1957 (accession number R7/1957). Neither is held by Wellcome Collection.

1957

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: accession number R2946/1936 and accession number R7/1957

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 2021.

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