Richter's Wound Clip Set
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
notes: label: Description
content: Wound clip with a “RICHTER-CLIP-FORCEPS / PATENTED OCT. 31, 1916 / CLIP-TRANSFER / USA.” inscription. Gustav Richter was a surgical instrument maker in Brooklyn. Clips of this sort were used on battlefields during World War I. Fred Haslam & Co., a Brooklyn-based manufacturer of surgical instruments, donated this example to the Smithsonian in 1921.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gustav F. Richter, “Wound Clip Forceps,” U.S. Patent 1,203,269 (Oct. 31, 1916).
label: Description
content: “A NEW MODEL OF THE RICHTER MAGAZINE WOUND CLIP FORCEPS,” The A.S.T.A. JOURNAL 1 (Nov. 1913): 41-43.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Fred Haslam & Co., Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-01271
label: accession number
content: 67074
label: catalog number
content: M-01271
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pocket Case
label: Object Name
content: pocket case
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: surgical stapler
label: Other Terms
content: Pocket Case; Surgical Set; General Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, canvas (pocket case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, nickel (instruments material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 3.7 cm x 16.1 cm x 7.5 cm; 1 7/16 in x 6 5/16 in x 2 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 6 3/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 4.445 cm x 16.1925 cm x 8.255 cm