Bistoury
name: label: maker
content: Goulding, William R.
notes: label: Description
content: Bistoury with a curved steel blade that folds into the tortoise shell handle, and a “W. R. GOULDING & CO. / NEW YORK” inscription. William Robinson Goulding (1806-1865) was born in Britain, arrived in New York in 1831, and was making surgical and dental instruments by 1838. His 1845 advertisement mentioned a store at Chatham St., and a steam manufactory at 103 Murray St. In 1849, he joined the gold rush to California.
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: 2012.0165.242.08
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.242.08
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lancet, thumb
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Object Name
content: bistoury, thumb
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 3 5/8 in x 1/2 in; .635 cm x 9.2075 cm x 1.27 cm