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Drawer containing contents of a tool kit
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1830
- Material and technique
- wood drawer; metal instruments, mostly steel, some inlaid with gold, and some with openwork decoration; instrument hafts of bone or mother-of-pearl; wood comb
- Dimensions
- drawer 5 x 23.5 x 37.8 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › steel,processed material › metal › gold,organic › animal › shell › pearlshell › mother-of-pearl
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science/medicine › medical/medicine equipment › surgical equipment › circumcision equipment › circumcision-knife,science/medicine › scientific instrument › medical instrument › surgical instrument › surgical knife › circumcision-knife,instrument › scientific instrument › medical instrument › surgical instrument › surgical knife › circumcision-knife,science/medicine › medical/medicine equipment › medical instrument › surgical instrument › surgical knife › circumcision-knife,science/medicine › medical/medicine equipment › surgical equipment › surgical instrument › surgical knife › circumcision-knife,arms/armour › weapon › dagger
- No. of items
- 29
- Credit line
- Transferred from the Museum of History of Science, 1955.
- Accession no.
- EA1955.1.3
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Further reading
Allan, James, and Brian Gilmour, Persian Steel: The Tanavoli Collection, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 15 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 383-386, illus. p. 384 fig. 55 a
Location
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- currently in research collection
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