Object Details
- Description
- Ophthalmic syringe with a turned silver barrel, plunger, and nozzle. A ring handle attached to the plunger is stamped with two hallmarks. An end cap screws onto the barrel. When the cap is removed the plunger and leather washer can be seen. The nozzle screws onto the barrel.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- leather (overall material)
- metal, steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.3 cm x 10.7 cm x 2.3 cm; 29/32 in x 4 7/32 in x 29/32 in
- overall: 1/2 in x 4 3/8 in x 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 11.1125 cm x 2.2225 cm
- Object Name
- syringe
- syringe
- Other Terms
- syringe; Syringe, Missing; Non-Hypodermic
