Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: Sponge-holding forceps with a “Manfd by F. H. Skinner Chicago” inscription. Frank Hamilton Skinner (1869-1930) was a Chicago dentist with several patents.
label: Description
content: Ref: Kuroris ad in Texas Dental Journal 31 (1913): 53.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Frank H. Skinner, Dentist 30 Years, Is Dead,” Chicago Tribune (June 8, 1930), p. 16.
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: 2006.0011.20
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0011.20
label: accession number
content: 2006.0011
objectType: label: Object Name
content: forceps
label: Object Name
content: forceps, sponge-holding
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.1 cm x .8 cm x 15.5 cm; 1 1/4 in x 5/16 in x 6 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 6 1/8 in x 1 1/4 in; .635 cm x 15.5575 cm x 3.175 cm