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Collection Item: Tonsil Guillotine
Basic info
- Collection
- Social History
- Object name
- Tonsil guillotine
- Object category
- Working life
- Object subcategory
- Distribution, hotels, catering, retail and repairs
- Description
- A tonsil guillotine with an impaling spike to spear the tonsil. It has a sliding blade that allows the loop to be placed over the tonsil and then released to remove it.
- Production date start
- 1900
- Production date end
- 1925
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : AA14
- Alternative number
- 62136
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 4.8433
- 1.41
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- SHIC
- ID
- 45000015
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Metal (Whole)
