Dental Brushes
Dental Brushes
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- Description
- Brush in a carboard box with inscriptions that read “ONE DOZEN / CRESCENT IMPROVED / TOOTH POLISHING BRUSHES / EXTRA HARD” and “PATENTED.” The Crescent Dental Manufacturing Company was established in Chicago in 1896 and incorporated in 1909.
- Ref: Ad for Crescent Dental brushes in The International Dental Review (1925).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- polishing brushes
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 5.715 cm x 1.905 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-10658
- catalog number
- M-10658
- accession number
- 254077
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. J. O. Pierson
- subject
- Dr. C. Edmund Kells Collection
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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