$371Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Dentistry Caricature of a Dentist extracting a Tooth, circa 1895
Located in Langweer, NL
This dentistry caricature shows a dentist extracting a tooth using steel pliers. The title of this version of this work is 'Steel Balsam' with balsam here being an archaic term for b...
Paper
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The Dentist, 1806, Engraving, British Satirical Caricature, Dental, English
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
A light social satire depicting a society dentist extracting a tooth from the mouth of a distressed young lady in an elegant drawing room, while two uniformed attendants and a young ...
Engraving
Giant Ceramic Molar with 'Fight the Tooth Worm' Image
Located in Haarlem, NL
Many times, though, the achy tooth had to be removed altogether. Some tooth-pullers mistook nerves for tooth worms, and extracted both the tooth and the nerve in it, what was certain...
Ceramic
Folky Extracted Tooth
Located in Cincinnati, OH
An amusing,diminutive hand carved and painted folk art wooden tooth artfully depicting and possibly advertising an early/crude extraction. A possible early dentists after hours handi...
Wood, Twine
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H 47 in W 33 in D 0.5 in
Large Double Sided Cast Iron French Sign Written Trade Sign Ch en Dentiste
Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire
These amateur ‘surgeons’ would use pliers or forceps to extract the rotten tooth - without any anaesthetic to ease the agonising pain.
Iron, Sheet Metal