MEDICAL COLLECTING ALERTS-P. 3

Here is a dental extracting forceps that was identified as a unique Civil War bullet extractor. True bullet extractors tend to be thin and straight, so as to require a small path to follow through the flesh, and rather delicate instruments. Not characteristics found in dental forceps. Indeed unique!
A uterine vulsellum/polyp forceps said to be a bullet forceps. Many types gynecological forceps are similarly misidentified.
A set offered as a dental caponizing set. Odd description since a capon is a castrated rooster.
Said to be a hearing aid, this is part of a Eastern European/Middle Eastern coffee making set. This tool has also been mis-described as a stethoscope.
This is a fine mechanic's stethoscope set alleged to be a medical stethoscope. While an engine may be the heart of a machine, it isn't a human heart.
Lancashire hacksaws are often mistakenly described as amputations saws.
Identified as a Civil War amputation knife, this is a ritual Kosher slaughtering (Shehita) knife by Grunewald.
This pocket knife and fork set were thought to be a vaccinating set.
Reproduction Civil war quinine tins can be mistaken for the genuine article such as was the case with this tin. The printing and paper of the label is incorrect. This tin was made for the re-enactor market.
A silver ashtray by Tiffany that was described to be a pap boat.
This is a veterinarian's set, not a Civil War field surgeon's set.
Probably a butcher's fillet knife, it is not a surgical knife as thought. Lamsom, the maker, made cutlery but not surgical instruments.
This is a boot pull, not a dental instrument as was supposed.
While this saw has markings indicating ownership by the U.S. Marine Corps, it is not an amputation saw. It is a butcher's saw.
A common meat fork does not miraculously become a breast amputating fork, as has been thought. The illustration from the 1770s shows a genuine breast fork.
For a reason impossible to fathom, these pieces were thought to be dental instruments.
Here is an ersatz Civil War 1861 field kit. An old box has been taken, the interior partially relined and filled with a patent 1861 Leypoldt bloodletting scarificator, dental extracting forceps and other instruments. The box, itself, is post-war.