21.  An 1840s sixth-plate daguerreotype of a young man wearing unusual oblong-shaped glasses. The man is blind in one eye. The original seal of the daguerreotype is intact and the antique  image is in very fine condition.

  22.  A rare c. 1880 surgeon's pocket knife containing six instruments,  including a bistoury, finger knife, Syme's abcess knife, scalpel, gum lancet, and director/probe.  Each instrument is marked by the maker:  ARNOLD / & SONS / LONDON.  Attached to one side of the grip horn slabs is a silver plate engraved with the name of the original owner:  E. Crundall.

  23.  A c. 1826 antique Laennec monaural stethoscope turned from cedar.  The instrument is 12" long and conforms with the stethoscope that was first illustrated in Laennec's text of 1826.  All the original parts are present and the cedar has a wonderful patina.  SOLD

  24.  A  new-old-stock c. 1960s Breitling doctor's wristwatch chronometer with pulse scale.  To determine a pulse one would start the chronograph, count 15 pulsations, stop the chronograph, and a special dial ring allows one to directly read the number of pulsations per minute.  While a large watch, it is not bulky due to the composite material case.  This high quality doctor's watch has never been worn and it is in excellent working order, the mechanical Valjoux 7730 movement having been recently cleaned and oiled.  James Bond wears a similar Breitling two-register chronometer in the 1965 movie Thunderball.

  25.  A  fine c. 1830 antique neurosurgical trephine with ivory handle.  The slots in the crown blade were thought to ease the clogging of the trephine caused by the mixture of bone dust and blood.  Unmarked, but by Alexander Still, an Edinburgh maker active from the late 1700s to the 1830s. 

    26.   A c. 1830 high quality antique knife and fork set  with ivory handles and original case.   The set was made for an invalid (someone with swallowing difficulties) or a person without teeth, as the single knife incorporates three different blades for the fine cutting of food.  The masticating knife can be taken apart for cleaning and is held together by a silver compression ring.  Each knife blade is marked:  JOSEPH RODGERS & SONS / CUTLERS TO HIS MAJESTY /  No 6 NORFOLK STREET / SHEFFIELD.  Rodgers received its royal warrant from King George IV in 1821.  A similar but slightly later knife is pictured in Abel Domenech, Exhibition Knives of Joseph Rodgers & Sons - The Samuel Setian Collection, p. 155.

  27.  A very fine c. 1860 double rachitome marked V[ICTORIA REGINA] / WEISS / LONDON. This is a horrific looking antique autopsy instrument that was used to remove a cross-section of spinal cord from a corpse during an autopsy. The distance between the two blades can be adjusted. The ebony handles are well cross-checked. The antique post mortem instrument is identified as Charriere’s Double Saw for the spine and illustrated in Weiss 1863, pl. XLIII, fig. 12.  Weiss was the finest English surgical instrument maker at the time.  Also see Tiemann 1889, p. 16, fig. 1122.