The Stuff of Nightmares

[Henry2]

My friend picked this up at a sale and gave it to me yesterday, my 1st question was "what the **** is it?" and then he went on to explain. These were tools to clean out peoples tear ducts, so imagine someone with one of these in hand moving towards your eyeball getting ready to shove it in, no thank you. I do need some help on this set though if anyone could help, I can't find the age of this or any price ranges to go by, any help would be appreciated.

 

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[kenstein]

I'm with you! I think I would have to pass on the cleansing. I love my dirty ducts. I can't help with any info. Never heard of such. Might be Ebay gold.

 

[JustinNH]

wow! ya, I agree-- no thank you! haha

 

[Tallone]

Yikes! I hurt just thinking about having that done. Cool find. Vintage medical stuff is pretty collectible. I'd start it at a pretty high price and see how much attention it gets. If this were mine, I'd start it around $100 auction only.

 

[diggummup]

Are they sterling silver or aluminum? It's one of the two. I believe they date to around the turn of the century. At least that is where they are mentioned in The Mechanics of Surgery By Charles Truax, 1899. Try googling https://www.google.com/search?q=The...rome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

 

[Henry2]

No wonder I couldn't find much on them, they spelled the name wrong on the case