One of a collection of surgical instruments, in a wooden box. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/10/2004]

Collection type: Object
Description: One of a collection of surgical instruments, in a wooden box. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/10/2004]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England
Cultural groups: European
Person: Maker J. Weiss & Son; Field collector Henry Balfour; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: 1800-1899
Date collected: ?By 1939
Acquisition information: Found unentered: 1945
Materials and processes: Material Metal, Material Rubber Plant
Dimensions: Length: max 220 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1945.11.153.21
Research and responses: This surgical instrument is as likely to have been used in England as in any other part of the British Isles and I have therefore included it in the English ethnography project [AP 25/07/2006]
J. Weiss & Son Surgical Instrument Makers 287 Oxford St London

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