Silver - Day One - 25th January 2011

Lot 467

A late Victorian silver tracheotomy tube

Estimate £60 - £80 | Hammer £220

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Description

A late Victorian silver tracheotomy tube, stamped 'Silver', 'Holborn Company' and '28', circa 1890, oval top, length 6cm. For a similar example see, 'Antique Medical Instruments', by Elizabeth Bennion, Sotheby, Parke, Bernet, 1979, page 101.