Dental Forceps
name: label: maker
content: Kern, Horatio G.
notes: label: Description
content: The “H. G. KERN” inscription on these dental forceps is that of Horatio G. Kern (1814-1889), a surgical and dental instrument maker in Philadelphia. Kern began in business in 1837, and by 1850 he was offering forceps “adapted to every tooth in the head.”
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-09297 [dup10]
label: catalog number
content: M-09297
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 1 1/4 in x 6 7/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 3.175 cm x 17.4625 cm