Circumcision knife with steel blade and crude wooden handle with silver mounts
- Made:
- 1651-1800
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Circumcision knife with steel blade and crude wooden handle with silver mounts, in case, c. 1690
Details
- Category:
- Surgery
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A610546
- Materials:
- steel (metal), silver (metal), wood (unidentified), leather, braid, paper (fibre product) and complete
- Measurements:
-
overall (knife): 20 mm x 172 mm,
overall (case): 22 mm x 34 mm x 195 mm,
- type:
- circumcision knife
