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Leather Wallet with Doctor's Pocket Instruments, Mid 19th Century

Inventory Number 91856

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.91856

Subject
Surgery
Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by A. C. Hyde Parker.
Primary inscriptions
.2: "J & S MAW" "WHITFORD"
Dimensions
Height: 58mm Width: 174mm Depth: 92mm Weight: 99g
Inventory No
91856
Accession Number
1959-45

Description

Leather folding wallet containing small instruments, some with tortoiseshell handles. According to the note from A.C. Hyde Parker contained in the wallet, these doctor's pocket instruments belonged to a Dr Henry Watson who died at the end of the 19th Century aged over 80. Probably born about 1815.

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