Strange Tweezers

[mojjax]

Anyone know what theese are for . The brown part looks like tortoise shell ? They are marked TIEMANN & Co

 

[LadyDigger]

I found this article....think it could be a tool for photography?
Annmarie

PS: Here's a google link: http://www.georgetiemann.com/layout.asp?include=browse&cat1=9

 

[relichunters]

Its from George Tiemann & Co. I believe.
http://www.georgetiemann.com/layout.asp

It is from an 18th century Surgical Set.

 

[Montana Jim]

Here is a guy who could probebly help...

http://www.braceface.com/medical/index.html

 

[Montana Jim]

They look like "entropium forcepts"... a doctors eye intrument. I'll dig for some pictures...

 

[PBK]

They look like "entropium forcepts"... a doctors eye intrument. I'll dig for some pictures...

Chalk up another one for the Montana man!

Second item from left at:

http://antiquescientifica.com/ophthalmic_eyelid_retractors_Tiemann_four_examples.jpg

 

[Montana Jim]

They look like "entropium forcepts"... a doctors eye intrument. I'll dig for some pictures...

Chalk up another one for the Montana man!

Second item from left at:

http://antiquescientifica.com/ophthalmic_eyelid_retractors_Tiemann_four_examples.jpg

I was just gonna post that PBK... nice job!

Quote from that source: "A selection of four c. 1860 antique ophthalmic instruments made by George Tiemann, New York. From left-to-right, are a Desmarre's eyelid retractor with ivory handle, a Roebrich's entropium forceps with tortoise shell blade, a Jaeger's plate lid-holder in solid tortoise shell, and a Noyes' eyelid retractor with ivory handle. All four instruments are illustrated in the 1889 Tiemann catalogue. "

 

[relichunters]

They look like "entropium forcepts"... a doctors eye intrument. I'll dig for some pictures...

Still for surgery no?

 

[Montana Jim]

They look like "entropium forceps"... a doctors eye instrument. I'll dig for some pictures...

Still for surgery no?

Yes... and you were right, probably from a 18th century eye doctor's surgical set...

 

[lonesomebob]

Keep an eye out for more of them, yuk yuk yuk Bob