Handle for Dental Forceps, Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: ca 1867
label: patent date
content: 1868-09-01
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for H. T. Fogg, “Improved Handle for Dental and Surgical Instruments” U.S. Patent 81,616 (September 1, 1868). H. T. Fogg resided in San Paulo, Brazil.
label: Description
content: From the patent application: "The present invention relates to a new and useful improvement in dental und surgical instruments, which are so constructed with adjustable handles that a dentist or surgeon may carry a number of instruments with him, with one set of handles, which shall be common to all, thus greatly reducing the weight of metal he would otherwise be obliged to carry [. . .]"
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04213
label: catalog number
content: M-04213
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: US81616A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps, All-Purpose
label: Object Name
content: forceps, handle, patent model
label: Object Name
content: dental device
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps, All-Purpose; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood; metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 19.05 cm x 5.715 cm