Samphere Guards
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Orin C. Samphere, “Connecting Bracket for Dental Handpieces,” U.S. Patent 1,152,122 (Aug. 31, 1915). Samphere obtained several patents for dental instruments and, in 1915, established the Universal Specialty Co. in Milwaukee.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for Samphere Guards made by the Universal Specialty Co., of Milwaukee, in Oral Hygiene 5 (1915): 671.
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.291116.197
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.197
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Discguard, Orthodontic, Batch of
label: Object Name
content: disc protectors, orthodontic
label: Object Name
content: dental device
label: Other Terms
content: Discguard, Orthodontic, Batch of; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 4 in x 3 in; 1.5875 cm x 10.16 cm x 7.62 cm