M0015938: Blades of two razors and a trephination lever, bearing maker's marks and names

Date:
1957
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/142/82
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M0015938: Blades of two razors and a trephination lever, bearing maker's marks and names. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: 2 razors from a pocket case of surgical instruments.

Description

Photograph of the blades of three two razors from a French pocket case of surgical instruments, 17th century, and a trephination lever, 18th century. All three were purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1928 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R3665/1936 (razors) and R3632/1936 (lever)). None are held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

1957

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the items: accession number R3632/1936 and

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

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.

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

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