Dental Instruments
name: label: maker
content: Williams Gold Refining Company
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription inside this case reads “WILLIAMS / MAT GOLD / MANUFACTURED BY / THE WILLIAMS GOLD / REFINING CO. / SMELTERS AND REFINERS / BUFFALO, N.Y.” In 1907, with money made from mining gold in the Yukon, Alexander D. Williams organized The Williams Gold Refining Co. in Kansas City. Williams moved the firm to Buffalo in 1912. By the 1920s the firm was a leading producer of gold alloys for dentistry.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miles Davis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0214.13
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0214.13
label: accession number
content: 2010.0214
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental instruments, set
label: Object Name
content: smelters and refiners, set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt (container material)
label: Measurements
content: container: 1 in x 6 in x 3 1/8 in; 2.54 cm x 15.24 cm x 7.9375 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 6 in x 3 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 15.24 cm x 7.9375 cm