I am selling a museum quality set of instruments for your antique dental, medical, or surgical collection. This is a huge cased mahogany chest of instruments. It dates to the middle of the 19th century. The top layer has a lovely set of mother of pearl instruments including a large mirror with inlaid jewels (gorgeous condition and almost impossible to find), scissors (signed Arnold, Baltimore) a small mirror, tongue blade, and a number of very high quality bone (ivry) handled with gilded ferrules (all original). The top layer is missing just one original instrument, a small syringe. There are two slide out drawers with lots of ivry and other instruments. Lifting up the top layer reveals still more instruments of various descriptions. The only sad part are the missing dental forceps in the bottom layer, but these regularly show up on website and in fact there are several auctions now with similar forceps. In my 30 years of collecting I have only seen maybe 6 or 7 sets like this one. Most are far less complete than this one. There is a similar boxed set of instruments, without the original large mirror, and missing a large number of pieces, on the internet for sale now for $15000. That set is not nearly as nice as mine. Similar sets have sold in the 25-30K over the years and this one is far less expensive. This set is huge and very heavy and hopefully I could meet the buyer instead of shipping the set. I am in the Baltimore/DC/Philly area. Willing to ship if needed buy buyer will pay all associated costs. This thing is heavy!
Please ignore the stated cost for shipping, as I could not get website to work properly on the shipping calculation. Buyer will pay my actual cost to ship anywhere.
I can take any other photos of the set if needed. The small mirror needs some repair and the tongue blade (mother of pearl) has an old glue repair that was not well done, which could be cleaned up easily. There is a break in the handle of the scissors, which is clean and easily glued, but I have not done that. The case is solid and in very nice condition. One photo shows a small amount of veneer loss but the rest is intact, really nice. I am trying to explain all the flaws of this set because there really are not many! It makes an incredible display, especially with all of the drawers open, showing the set of instruments which were obviously made to impress patients in a dental waiting room around 1850. This is a rare opportunity for the collector of medical and dental antiques.
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I am a collector of museum quality cased medical, bloodletting, and surgical sets, as well as art related to medicine. Always happy to hear what might be out there!
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