Dental Forceps
name: label: maker
content: Kern, Horatio G.
notes: label: Description
content: Dental forceps with a “H. G. KERN / PHILADA” inscription. Horatio G. Kern (1815-1889) was a surgical and dental instrument maker in Philadelphia who began in business in 1837.
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 University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08625.01
label: catalog number
content: M-08625.01
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: forceps, dental, extraction
label: Object Name
content: dental instrument
label: Object Name
content: forceps, dental, dental instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 7 1/8 in x 2 in; 1.905 cm x 18.0975 cm x 5.08 cm