Dental Forceps
name: label: maker
content: Kern, Horatio G.
notes: label: Description
content: Dental forceps with an “H. G. KERN / PHILADA.” inscription. Horatio G. Kern (1814-1889) was a surgical and dental instrument maker in Philadelphia was was in business in 1837. By 1850, he was offering forceps “adapted to every tooth in the head.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08694 [dup1]
label: catalog number
content: M-08694
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: forceps
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 in x 1 in; 19.685 cm x 3.81 cm x 2.54 cm x 2.54 cm