Russian Surgical set signed A Bose, c. 1890
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A surgical instruments case, probably of Russian origin. There are mainly instruments signed ‘A. Bose’ and two knives signed ‘Rooch St Petersb’. In the book The Finest Instruments Ever Made: A Bibliography of Medical, Dental, Optical, and Pharmaceutical Company Trade Literature, 1700-1939 by Audrey B. Davis, Mark S. Dreyfuss (1986) A firm ‘A. Boze of St. Petersburg Russia’ is mentioned. This firm advertised in two catalogues in 1894. Atlas Khirurgicheskikh instrumentov, p. 58. The national library of Medicine of America holds a copy.
The surgical set comes in a walnut case, red velvet interior “A.Bose” containing 19 instruments including three amputation knives with guilloche ebony handles of which two signed A Bose and one by Luër, one scalpel with ebony handle by A Bose, a hernia knife and a scalpel signed Rooch St Petersb, a hook signed Henseling, A Petit-type tourniquet of brass, red fabric and canvas, a trephine of gilded and blued steel and an ebony handle, a trocar with guilloche ebony handle, a silver cannula, a large probe with ebonised handle, three hooks of which two by A Bose with ebony and one needle holder with guilloche ebony handle, a lenticular with ebony handle signed A Bose, a bone forceps by A Bose and lastly, two small forceps of which one signed Bose. Furthermore the case contains a set of suture threat holders and the original key.
Dimensions 40 x 23 x7 cm.
