Surgical Saw
name: label: maker
content: Kolbe, D. W.
notes: label: Description
content: Lifting Back Metacarpal Saw with a “KOLBE / PHILA” inscription. Dietrich W. Kolbe was a cutler trained in Paris and Germany who worked in Philadelphia from 1856 until his death in 1878.
label: Description
content: Ref: George Tiemann & Sons, American Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), p. 14.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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: MG.314016.220E
label: accession number
content: 314016
label: catalog number
content: 314016.220E
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Saw
label: Other Terms
content: Saw; Cutting Tools
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, ebony (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 3.9 cm x 2.9 cm x 30.3 cm; 1 9/16 in x 1 1/8 in x 11 15/16 in