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Type of Object
Set, dental
Date of Manufacture
1865-1895
Physical Details
Set of tools for dental extraction and other basic dental surgery in velvet-lined wooden box. Box has brass corners guards and braces at corners, and a locking front. The top tray contains 12 instruments with ebony handles, and 12 with ivory handles, including 15 excavators of varying sizes and shapes, one universal handle, and 7 scalers. The top tray fits the instruments with flat-laying openings, a sloping area in the middle on top of a mirrored base, and have a gold-print filligree as a border around the outside. The bottom tray has two imprinted velvet areas, and includes 7 extraction forceps, 3 stump extractors with ivory handles, and 2 stump extractors with ebony handles.
Dimensions
12 cm. x 37.5 cm. x 28.5 cm.
Medical Subject
Dental Instruments; Dentistry, Operative -- instrumentation
Accession Number
1982.5
Genre
medical equipment
Local Genre
medical artifact
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
Medical Artifacts Collection
Source
Original object: Dental Extraction Set, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
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