15.  A scarce antique dental forceps-key extractor marked: BAKER & RICE / PATENTED 1845 // J. FENTON / COLUMBUS [OHIO].  The instrument is a combination of the attributes of the an extracting forceps and a toothkey.  Squeezing the grip controls the claw, an action which must be done with a finger to the claw on a regular toothkey.   This dealer is aware of only one other example of a Baker and Rice patented dental forceps-key.  John Fenton was active in Columbus from 1843 to 1863, as cited in Edmonson, p. 250.

  17.  A c. 1860 Judaic antique circumcision shield.  This Jewish ritual antique circumcision guard has quite decorative pierced-work and engraved floral designs.  It also features a Magen David  (Star of David).  SOLD

  18.  A fine and scarce 16th century antique silver-mounted shagreen surgical and bloodletting instrument case.  Such distinctive shagreen boxes are associated with the United Company of Barber Surgeons as several bear the coat-of-arms of the London guild.  For one major example, please see this link.  The silver clasp is engraved:  J. Fowler / Stanton-Drew.  Fowler is an old family name in Stanton-Drew, and, certainly, it is a lineage that is contemporary in time and place with the 16th century case.  The small English village of Stanton-Drew is located 8 miles south of Bristol, in Somerset, and it appears in the Domesday Book of 1086.  The interior velvet lining bears the impression of the antique spectacles that were stored in the box during the 18th century.

  19.  A very rare Junod grande ventouse.  Victor-Théodore Junod, Parisian physician, 1809-1881 Junod's boot  botte de Junod  dry cupping  Traité théorique et pratique de l'hémospasie ; par le docteur T. Junod hemospasia   Charriere a Paris  Junod's exhausting boot  SOLD

  20.  An exquisite silver plate c. 1860 antique ear trumpet by F.C. Rein & Son Patentees, sole inventor & only makers, No. 108 Strand, London.  The bell and tube of the ear trumpet are expertly and fully hand-engraved in an elaborate foliage pattern.  The pierced grill is particularly attractive and refined.  The ear tip is ivory.