M0017001: Surgical instrument case belonging to Zachariah Gibson, 18th century

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Shop

Café

Due to essential system maintenance, online requesting will be unavailable from 9pm until midnight on Tuesday 21 April. You can still search the catalogue as usual. We apologise for any inconvenience.

We're running paid user research studies to improve Wellcome Collection online

Take part in research

Photograph of a surgical instrument case of shagreen, silver mounted and bearing the arms of the Company and Zachariah Gibson's initials. It was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1915 (accession number R1646). It is now held by the Science Museum (object number A608303).

M0017001: Surgical instrument case belonging to Zachariah Gibson, 18th century

Licence and re-use