Dental Extraction Set
Description(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.
Date of Manufacture: 1865-1895
Rights: www.library.vcu.edu/copyright.html
Collection: Medical Artifacts Collection
Reference URL: dig.library.vcu.edu/u?/mar,136
Dental Extraction Set
Description(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.
Date of Manufacture: 1865-1895
Rights: www.library.vcu.edu/copyright.html
Collection: Medical Artifacts Collection
Reference URL: dig.library.vcu.edu/u?/mar,136