Dental Flask
notes: label: Description
content: The “F. Y. CLARK / Sav’h / Ga.” inscription on this dental flask is that of Finlay Yerelian Clark (1829-1903), a dentist with a diploma from the Baltimore Dental College and an M.D. from the Savannah Medical College.
label: Description
content: Ref: F. Y. Clark, “Mold for Metal Dies Used By Dentists,” U.S. Patent 28,348 (May 22, 1860).
label: Description
content: Ad for “Dr. F. Y. CLARK’S Flasks for Making Dies,” ad in The New York Dental Journal 4 (1861).
label: Description
content: “F. Y. Clark,” Items of Interest: A Monthly Magazine of Dental Art, Science and Literature 25 (1903): 874-875.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.649.02
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.649.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flask, patent model
label: Object Name
content: dental device
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 9.525 cm x 10.795 cm x 8.89 cm