MEDICAL AND
DENTAL ANTIQUES
M&R GORDON
123 7TH AVE (#239)
BROOKLYN, NY 11215
TEL: (718) 623-6777
E-MAIL: gordon9@mindspring.com
Michael and Roberta Gordon have been buying and selling medical
and dental antiques for more than 30 years. Our large and constantly changing stock includes items for the beginning collector as well as for the more
advanced. We normally have a good selection of cased sets of surgical instruments,
stethoscopes, anesthesia apparatus, hearing aids, bloodletting devices,
specs, ophthalmoscopes, dental instruments, quackery, etc.
Why not take a moment to contact us by e-mail
or telephone and let us know a little about the focus of your collecting interests?
While we do not publish a catalog we are happy to respond to inquiries from collectors and
receive want lists. We can provide digital or hard-copy images of available items. Everything
is sold with a money-back guarantee and no explanation is required. All we ask is that the
items in question be put back in the mail within a week of receipt.
PLEASE NOTE: If you are not in the market to purchase antique medical or dental
instruments but have one or more to sell, we would be very pleased to hear from you. We
are prepared to pay well for desirable items. We do not
do
appraisals.
A FEW EXAMPLES OF
SOME ITEMS CURRENTLY IN STOCK ARE SHOWN BELOW (prices and
additional images gladly provided upon request):
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A superb set of gold-plated Charriere instruments for use in
physiological experiments that was presented by Dr. Henry J. Bigelow to the Boston Society for Medical Improvement in 1869.
Bigelow was the surgeon who in 1846 facilitated Morton's first successful use of ether at Mass General and then disseminated this news
in an earthshaking journal article. Case length:15.5".
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A truly unique set solid silver and ivory instruments. The ivory handle of , each engraved: "Dr. Murray's Speculum"
and " Hongkong". They were custom made by a Chinese silversmith, (all are struck with his mark: "WC") to the
specifications of a doctor who was a Colonial Surgeon and Director of Hospitals in Hong
Kong during the 1860s. Case length: 15".
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A cased set of lithotomy instruments by Baker of London dating
from the last quarter of the 19th century. One or two minor replacements but otherwise all original. Case length: 14". |
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A very good set of c. 1880 trepanning instruments, by Lentz and
Sons of Phila., that belonged to Dr. J. William White, a surgeon and prominent member of the Univ. of Pennsylvania
Medical School faculty from 1874-1911. Case length:
13". SOLD |
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A
set of Heurteloup's leeches with his distinctive mechanical scarificator.
Typically Herteloup's sets have a single leech but this one has several and the fittings to adjust them to contours of the various parts of the body to which they were applied.
Stamped into the pewter cartouche on the lid:" BARON
HEURTELOUP
PATENT NO 2284" SOLD
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An early 19th century mechanical pelican
in polished steel and another,of similar date, with a wooden handle.
Shown with an early ivory mounted dental
drill. ALL THREE HAVE BEEN SOLD. |
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