American Civil War Medicine & Surgical Antiques

(A Private Collection - Research and Identification Project)

Civil War:  Medicine, Surgeon Education, & Medical Text-books

 Dr. Michael Echols

As seen in: Military Images Magazine, American's Civil War Magazine, Warman's Civil War Collectibles, Antique Week, Northeast Antiques, Civil War Army Swords, Civil War Times Illustrated, various TV programs, Antiques & Collecting publications

 

 

2011 - "The sesquicentennial of the Civil War" -  2015

 

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Surgery set case with military sliding latches and a keyed lock

Single sliding latch case

The presence of a keyed lock and sliding latches or a single latch on larger cases is highly unusual, so these cases shown below are very unusual and not typical by any means of military sets during the Civil War. 

The upper empty case showed up on eBay in 2008 proving the double locked cases did exist and we do see examples of 'real' Civil War surgical sets which are double locked.  One is shown in Edmonson's book too.

The lower images of a single latched empty case showed up on eBay in 2010 and is a Hernstein Civil War era military case with an unusual 'USA' marked brass plate, which is more typical of small trepanning cases.  This is the only 'USA' only marked brass plates this collector has seen on a larger military case.

 

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Direct links to all medical & Civil War collections on this site
American Surgical Sets: Pre-1861:  1 | 2  -   Post-1865:  3  -  Civil War era:  4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8    INDEX

Medical Text-Books:

1 | 1a | 2 | 2a | 3 | 3a | 4 | 4a | 5 | 5a | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9a | 10 | 11 | 12    INDEX

Medical Lecture Cards:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21    INDEX

Surgeon CDV Images:

Army: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7   Army: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8   Navy: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Medical Staff Swords:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17

Hosp Dep't Bottles & Tins:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

American Civil War Medicine & Surgical Antiques

 

Warman's Civil War Collectibles Book: medical examples with prices 2010

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Last update: Tuesday, September 07, 2010