- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Surgical instrument, found in wooden box. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/10/2004]
- Geographical reference
- England
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Horatio Percy Symonds
- PRM source Henry Balfour
- PRM source Horatio Percy Symonds
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1800-1899
- Date collected
- ?By 1939
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1942, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Metal, Process Machine-made
- Dimensions
- Length: max 250 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.8.126.34
- Research and responses
In the Related Documents File is a list detailing: "Donors, or probable donors, of material entered under Mr Balfour’s name, 1942.8.126. No suggestion. [MR 11/5/2000]
Search terms: Box, Medicine, Surgical Instrument
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