Dental Crown Press
name: label: maker
content: W. M. Sharp Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Warren M. Sharp (1863-1921) was born in Canada, moved to Binghamton, N.Y. as a young man, established the W. M. Sharp Co., and obtained several dental-related patents. This cast-iron shell press, made by the W. M. Sharp Co. for the S. Eldred Gilbert Dental Mfg. Co. in Philadelphia, formed hollow metal shells that dentists could use as temporary crowns, for those who could not afford gold or porcelain permanent crowns. It consisted of a row of thirteen graduated pins mounted to a driving plate, each with a mating hole in the lower forming plate. The different size pins corresponded to the various sizes of teeth.
label: Description
content: Ref: Warren M. Sharp, “Device for Drawing Metal Tooth-Caps,” U.S. Patent 726,772 (April 28, 1903).
label: Description
content: “Dr. Warren M. Sharp,” New York Tribune (Dec. 21, 1921), p. 11.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.291116.206
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.206
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Crown Press
label: Other Terms
content: Crown Press; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 6 1/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 15.875 cm x 11.43 cm