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Dental split-shaft punch elevator, late 18th century

HC.J.2.X.4

A double-ended geisssfuss type with an octagonal ebony handle. An adjustable steel-head elevator, with two pairs of beaks expanded or contracted by means of a collar ring, ebony handle. Menzies Campbell cites J H Savigny, A Collection of Engravings representing … Instruments, 1798, pl. XIV, fig. 17. "The use of a collar ring to securely support, was a simple but ingenious solution used for a number of purposes, such as an artist’s steel chalk holder, circa 1760", see Rupert Gentle & Rachael Feild, Domestic Metalwork, new edition revised, 1994, p. 359 Elevator. Late eighteenth century.

Eighteenth century, late