Patent model for Julius A. Bidwell, “Improvement in Dental Mallets,” U.S. Patent US.103,706 (May 31, 1870). At the time, Bidwell was living in Chicago.
Dental mallet with straight and right-angled heads. The donor identified this as Power’s Engine Mallet. A label in the lid of the case reads “C. ASH & SONS / LIMITED / LONDON.”
Ref: C. Ash & Son, Ltd., Quarterly Circular (London, March 1895), pp. 263 and 616.