American Civil War Surgical Antiques

Medicine and surgery books, medicine containers, surgery sets, lecture cards,

Wanted to Purchase List

As of  2010

 

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 A list of Civil War medical & surgical antiques WANTED to purchase

Civil War era medical and surgical items are wanted to purchase for this collection to include certain Civil War era medical books and containers, surgical instruments, partial surgery kits, individual instruments and medical school lecture tickets or cards as well as medical college graduation catalogues

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Pre-1865 surgery sets,  Civil War surgery sets,  Civil War medical books,  Medical school lecture cards, medical bottles & tins

 

SPECIFIC 'WANTED TO BUY' ITEMS

Click on yellow underlines to see examples of wanted items

  1. Wanted: Surgical & medicine sets & kits: by Hernstein, Snowden, Tiemann, Gemrig, Kolbe, (especially incomplete or partial sets)

  2. Wanted: Medical college lecture tickets or cards, issued prior to 1870

  3. Wanted: Wade and Ford dental extraction forceps: see example

  4. Wanted: Individual Civil War era surgery instruments, see examples and values

  5. Wanted: Medicine and surgery text-books from the Civil War era, a short list

  6. Wanted: Medical and Surgeon images and swords

Please....send clear digital photos of items you wish to sell and lots of details...

 

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 Medical Collections                  Direct links to all medical & Civil War collections on this site              

American Surgical Sets:        Pre-1861:  1 | 2    -    Civil War:  4 | 5 | 6 | 7     -    Post-1865:  3 

Medical Text-Books:

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

Medical Lecture Cards:

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

Surgeon CDV Images:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Medical Staff Swords:

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

Hosp Dept Bottles & Tins:

1 | 2 | 3 |

 

Currently Seeking to Purchase for this Collection

Partial or Incomplete surgical sets or instruments by:  Snowden, Tiemann, Gemrig, Kolbe', Hernstein

 Any medical instrument or book marked:   U.S.A. / Hosp. Dep't.  or  U.S.A. / Med. Department

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American Civil War Medical & Surgical Antiques

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Last update: Wednesday, February 03, 2010