Object Details
- Description
- Steel tenaculuml with ivory handle. The “SNOWDEN” inscription refers to a surgical instrument firm in Philadelphia in the mid-nineteenth century.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Snowden and Brother
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
- Physical Description
- metal, steel (overall material)
- ivory (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 19 cm x 1.5 cm x .5 cm; 7 1/2 in x 9/16 in x 3/16 in
- Object Name
- Knife
- hook
- Other Terms
- Knife; Cutting Tools; Scalpel
