Hand stopper

Maker
1. De Trey and Co Ltd
2. P. A. Kolliker & Co.
Date
Circa 1895
 Description
Typical hand stopper with contra angle and serrated end, slight damage to handle. Part of a set. More modern instruments than Dental Museum Collection items 456 to 463. Instruments have a similar function but are for gold and amalgam having a lighter handle for finer precision touch. Finger used instead of hand. Very well made instruments, most are named and have ebony, steel or vulcanite handles. Contra angled. Note, some catalogues refer to these instruments (stoppers) as 'pluggers'.

Object detail

Maker
Date
Circa 1895
Accession Number
HFA469
Inscriptions
maker's mark ▫ No 26. P. A. KOLLIKER & CO. DE TREY'S PATENT NO 8787595
Object Type
instruments
Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum Category
Conservative Dentistry
Museum
Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum

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