Copper dipilatory forceps

Made:: 1700-1900

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Copper dipilatory forceps, pear shaped, doubled, Peruvian, 1700-1900

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A122927

Materials:: copper

type:: depilatory tweezers

credit:: Puttick and Simpson Limited

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Copper dipilatory forceps

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