Dental Plate and Teeth
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Sharpless Clayton, “Tooth,” U.S. Patent 12,156 (Jan. 2, 1855). Sharpless Clayton (1813-1862) lived in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The patent described a method of securing porcelain teeth to metal plates.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
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.291116.107
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: patent number
content: 12516
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental plate, upper
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 2 in x 2 1/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 5.08 cm x 5.715 cm