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Artifact Name	Crown Holder
Type of Object	Crown holder
Date of Manufacture	1897
Time Period	Nineteenth century
Dimensions	1.4 cm. x 15 cm. x 2.5 cm.
Physical Details	Single piece holder for dental crowns and bridge sections. Heavy, dark wood handle is attached to a six pronged apparatus for grasping items. A steel ring of uniform size with two ancillary steel catches pushes prongs together or allows them to fall apart to either grasp and hold or let go. Ring is stamped with: "Pat. June 20-97 Ivory."
Medical Subject	Dentistry, operative
Accession Number	1984.15.41
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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