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Copy photograph. Trade card
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Copy photograph. Trade card
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Trade card. Advertisement; print; engraving; John Best at ye Mace ye corner of Lumbard [Lombard] Street next ye Stocks Market [London]. Maketh Razors, Sissers [scissors], Launcets [lancets] , Penknives; And all sorts of Chirurgeon's [surgeon's] Instruments; also by him are sold fine hoanes [hones]. [illustrations of mace and fleams. surgical saw, trepanning drill and bits, also instruments described]. n.d. [1690-1760] 19x 11.5 cm, to plate mark 13.5 x 9 cm.
John Best’s surgical instrument making business, based in London, is advertised by this trade card. The card has illustrations of the instruments he made, such as fleams for bloodletting, trephination drills and bits, razors, scissors, lancets and penknives.
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- Category:
- Art
- Object Number:
- 1987-914
- type:
- trade card, engraving and print
- taxonomy:
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- visual and verbal communication
- advertising card
- visual and verbal communication
- visual and verbal communication
- visual and verbal communication
- furnishing and equipment
- tools & equipment
- medical instrument
- credit:
- Delehar, P.
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