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Soft black leather case holding two steel cut-throat razors

Made:: 1880-1925

Soft black leather case holding two steel cutthroat razors, tassel on bottom, cylindrical, Niger-Benue District, Nigeria, 1880-1925

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A69155

Materials:: leather

type:: razors

credit:: Martin, V.C.

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Parts

Cut-throat razor, hinged, steel covered wooden handle

Cut-throat razor, hinged, steel covered wooden handle

Materials:: steel and handle, wood

Object Number:: A69155 Pt1

type:: razors

Cut-throat razor, wooden handle, steel cuff

Cut-throat razor, wooden handle, steel cuff

Materials:: steel (metal) and wood (unidentified)

Object Number:: A69155 Pt2

type:: razors

Case for two cut-throat razors

Case for two cut-throat razors

Materials:: leather

Object Number:: A69155 Pt3

type:: case - container

Cut-throat razor, hinged, steel covered wooden handle

Cut-throat razor, hinged, steel covered wooden handle

Materials:: steel (metal) and wood (unidentified)

Object Number:: A69155 Pt4

type:: razors