Dental Plates
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Jacob Lambert Asay, “Attaching Teeth to Plates,” U.S. Patent 62,918 (March 19, 1867). Jacob Lambert Asay (1836-1925) lived in Philadelphia when he submitted this patent application. He later moved to California.
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 Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.105
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: patent number
content: 62918
label: catalog number
content: 291116.105
objectType: label: Object Name
content: casting plate
label: Object Name
content: dental demonstration piece
label: Object Name
content: dental demonstration piece, patent model
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 1/2 in x 5/8 in; .635 cm x 1.27 cm x 1.5875 cm
label: Measurements
content: envelope: 3 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in; 7.9375 cm x 13.97 cm