Name/Title
Dr. Schroeder's Elgin Casting machine for filling teeth, 1908Entry/Object ID
1981.222.1Description
Acc. No. 81.222.1
Subject Category: Medical (Dentist Equipment)
Date or period: 1908
Object: Casting Machine
Description: It is a barrel like object, resting on four feet. It has a hand pump at one end. It has a warning apparatus that is nickel plated. It has a circular gauge that registers 0 to 30 with a hand and on the face of the dial "The Elgin Casting Apparatus Vacuum". The body of the instrument is back enamel and it has a transfer of flowers. It has an illegible manufacturing transfer.
Size: it stands 8½" tall and it is 13" in length.
History of Object: Blind pig casting machine used in casting cold inlays for filling teeth about 1908, Used by Doctor Ernest Schroeder.
Acquired from: Mrs. Dorothy Scholte
Date: November, 1954Interpretative Labels
Label
3/17/2020 MvL:
current label:
DENTAL EQUIPMENT
An assortment of dental
tools that were used by
early Alameda dentists.
