MEDICAL AND VETERINARY
A William IV veterinary's fleam with two lancet blades,stamped with maker's name and address: "LONG, 217 H[IGH] HOLBORN / LONDON" and engraved with the owner "S. Brannan / Farrier. / 8th Hufsars", 89mm (closed)
A Viictorian three-lancet veterinary fleam with horn scales, the arms stamped "G. GREGORY / CAST STEEL", 81mm (closed)
A late Georgian three-lancet veterinary fleam with brass scales, the rivets enclosed within decorative turned roundels, the arms stamped "H. G. LONG & Co. / SHEFFIELD, 90mm (closed)
A late Georgian three-lancet veterinary fleam with brass scales, by "RODGERS" (probably Joseph Rodgers of Sheffield), 85mm long, (closed), with its boiled leather decorative pocket case
A 19th-century lignum vitae fleam mallet, used for tapping the lancet blade into the horse's vein to let blood, 208mm long
A late Georgian brass mechanical fleam with single steel spring-loaded lancet blade, operated by the trigger, anonymous, in boiled leather decoratively-tooled pocket case, 102 mm long, (overall)
An early 19th-century doctor's morocco-cased pair of lancets with swivelling tortoiseshell scales, the steel mirror-polished blades stamped "THOMPSON / LONDON", 62mm long, (overall)
An early 19th-century doctor's lancet with swivelling tortoiseshell scales, the steel blade stamped "WILSON", in its original boiled-leather pocket case 67mm long, (overall)
An early Victorian corn knife, the folding blade so marked, with black walnut scales, approximately 80mm long, (closed)
An early Victorian "Gibson" dosing spoon, of pewter or Britannia metal, impressed with maker's name, "J & S MAW / LONDON", the handle with pipette action to allow the flow of the medicine, 178mm long.
Note: A Soloman Maw, Surgical Instrument Maker is recorded at 11 Aldersgate Street, (1839-60)