Dental Forceps
name: label: maker
content: Cleveland Dental Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: The “CLEV-DENT / 14 / NEVIUS” inscription on this dental forceps refers to the Cleveland Dental Manufacturing Co., a firm that began using the term CLEV-DENT in 1905 and applied for a trademark in 1916. The form was designed by Dr. Laird W. Nevius (1845-1915), a dentist in Chicago.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for the Clev-Dent Nevius forceps No. 10 in Popular Health Dental Supplement 2 (1926), p. 73.
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 Doris H. Bratten (Mrs. Roscoe C. Bratten, D.D.S.)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.312608.028
label: catalog number
content: 312608.028
label: accession number
content: 312608
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 1 15/16 in x 6 3/4 in; 3.175 cm x 4.92125 cm x 17.145 cm