medical equipment

Object NameSyringe

Made Fromnon-lead glass

Dateabout 1900

Size(A) L: 16.2 cm, D: 2.1 cm; (B) L: 14.6 cm, D: 2 cm

Accession Number89.4.11 A

Credit LineGift of Mr. James Friant

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Exhibitions

Bonds: Glass Bonds

Place Made

United States

Physical DescriptionColorless, transparent green, brownish-red non-lead glasses, thread, aluminum; mold-blown tubes, pulled glass rods. Cylindrical tubes of colorless glass with neck and pointed tip at one end and screwed on aluminum cap at the other end; a green glass rod is in each tube, the lower end of which is wound with thread to make a relatively tight fit against the walls of the tube. The rod in "B" is green with some reddish glass around the discs which confine the thread; "A" has a reddish disc at bottom withing tube as well as one at the top outside of the tube.
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