M0005015: Display sign introducing the Lavel Scalzi collection of Surgical Instruments found in Rome 1870-1880

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Lavel Scalzi collection of Surgical Instruments found in Rome 1870-1880

Photograph of a display case sign introducing the Scalzi collection of Roman surgical instruments. They were exhibited at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1878 and subsequently acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. They are not held by Wellcome Collection.

4 November 1936

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 21.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds an archive file related to the items depicted in the glass plate negative: WA/HMM/CM/Col/88

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.