Surgical Saw
name: label: maker
content: Kolbe, D. W.
notes: label: Description
content: Surgical saw with an ivory handle and a “KOLBE” inscription. Dietrich W. Kolbe was a cutler trained in Paris and Germany who worked in Philadelphia from 1856 until his death in 1878.
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.314016.220X
label: catalog number
content: 314016.220.X
label: accession number
content: 314016
objectType: label: Object Name
content: saw
label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (blade material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in; .635 cm x 1.27 cm x 18.415 cm