COLLECTION OF ROMAN BRONZE AND IRON SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS. Ca…

Lot no. 892

Estimate: £450 - £900

Sale date : 11/30/2025 at 2:00 PM

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COLLECTION OF ROMAN BRONZE AND IRON SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS. Ca. AD 1 - 300. A collection of five bronze and iron surgical instruments, including, from left to right: a bronze spoon with an ovoid bowl on a slender stem finished in a moulded baluster terminal; a knife with a broad lunate iron blade socketed into a cast bronze handle; a knife with a narrow iron blade set into a similar bronze handle; a scalpel-spatula with an iron blade above a slim bronze grip terminating in an ovoid spatulate end; and a small knife with a tapering iron blade and a bronze handle with stepped mouldings and a small knop terminal. For similar see: J. Kirkup, The history and evolution of surgical instruments. I. Introduction, pp. 879-885. Size: 105-150mm x 6-45mm; Weight: 430g Provenance: From an old British collection formed in the 1990s; previously acquired in Austria.

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