- 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
- England
- Cultural groups
- European
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1800-1899
- Date collected
- ?By 1939
- Acquisition information
- Found unentered: 1945
- Materials and processes
- Material Metal
- Dimensions
- Length: max 147 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1945.11.153.54
- 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]
Search terms: Medicine, Surgical Instrument
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