Forceps
Forceps
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- Description
- Small metal forceps with three locking ridges. The flat, cross-serrated edges measure 1.5 inches, and forceps have a screw joint. These forceps were part of a midwife's kit from Buffalo, NY, about 1920.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- forceps, small
- forceps
- midwife's kit
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/4 in x 5 in x 2 1/2 in;.635 cm x 12.7 cm x 6.35 cm
- overall: 13 cm x 6.75 cm x.75 cm; 5 1/8 in x 2 21/32 in x 9/32 in
- ID Number
- 2012.0128.20
- accession number
- 2012.0128
- catalog number
- 2012.0128.20
- accession number
- 2012.0128
- catalog number
- 2012.0128.20
- Credit Line
- Gift from Joseph Badlotto in memory of Rosa Bonfante and her daughter Mary Bonfante Chirchirillo Badlotto
- subject
- Medicine
- Surgical instruments
- Women's Health
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Midwife Kit
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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