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Vaccination Lancets, Late 18th or Early 19th Century

Inventory Number 48244


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.48244

Item type
Object
Physical material
Steel
Tortoise Shell
Object type
Lancet
Dimensions
Height: 70mm Width: 30mm Depth: 5mm Weight: 13g
Inventory No
48244

Description

Three vaccination lancets which are protected by two-piece tortoise shell covers that rotate apart to reveal the steel lancets.  There are flower decorations carved into the steel hinges.  There are some unknown markings scratched into the inside surfaces of the tortoise shell covers and there are markings inscribed in two of the lancets.