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[CIVIL WAR]. War-period amputation kit by H. Hernstein, New York.

Sale 1046 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann

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[CIVIL WAR]. War-period amputation kit by H. Hernstein, New York.

Velvet-lined wooden box with brass fittings and unmarked cartouche, 17 1/4 x 6 1/4 x 3 in. (one tool missing from slot; general wear including light denting and nicking to case, wear with some tearing to velvet, occasional patination to brass fittings). Kit includes 6 scalpels of varying sizes, bone forceps, needles, a tenaculum, amputating saw, Hey's saw, conical crown trephine, trephine or bone brush, tourniquette, and other instruments, many having wooden handles. Most tools stamped for Hernstein, one includes his address at 393 Broadway.

Hermann Hernstein operated under that name at 393 Broadway prior to and for some time during the Civil War before adding his son to the business in 1862. Hernstein was a supplier of contract ordered surgical sets during the war.

The Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann

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