- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; piece of composition, ?Cellulose Nitrate, red in colour and circular in shape. Used for sore throat or swollen glands. For young children (boys) only. [SB [OPS Move] 29/08/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Cellulose Nitrate
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 12 mm, Height: max 11 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1240 Other numbers: A 110436 477
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