M0019889: English pocket case of dental scalers, 18th century

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Pocket case of dental scalers. English, 18th c.

Photograph of a pocket case of dental scalers for personal use together with a small hand mirror. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1917 (accession number R6362)

July 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R6362

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.