Dr. Ralph and Mrs. Olga Crawford Canadian Dental Collection
Category
Dental
Classification
Dental
Accession Number
010020029
Description
Wooden dental instrument cabinet, painted blue; base painted black; twelve drawers down left side, twelve drawers down right; drawer interiors painted in white; drawers get progressively bigger as they go down towards base; black glass surface with silver metal border atop drawers; three square cup…
Wooden dental instrument cabinet, painted blue; base painted black; twelve drawers down left side, twelve drawers down right; drawer interiors painted in white; drawers get progressively bigger as they go down towards base; black glass surface with silver metal border atop drawers; three square cupboards, painted blue, atop rectangular mirrored back; opaque diamond-patterend glass inserts in cupboard doors; left cupboard has two metal hinges on left side and single white porcelain shelf inside, other two have hinges on right side and two porcelain shelves inside; octagonal black-enamelled metal knobs on drawers and cupboards
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Transfer from the Dental Canada Fund; previously housed in the Dentistry Canada Museum (Ottawa)
Paint chipped above and below cupboards and at base; knobs missing on first drawer on left and seventh drawer down on left; some knobs loose; mirror tarnished; paint faded around edges
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Document
JPG
Reference Comments
CD #9
Research Facts
Dr Ralph and Mrs Olga Crawford donated their extensive Canadian dental collection to the DCF to create the museum in 1997; further donations were received while Dr Crawford was Curator Emeritus at the Dental Canada Museum until its closure in 2008; this item was donated by Dr. William H. Mills from Toronto, Ontario; a 1936 advertisement for this cabinet states that the addition of attractive, restful and prestige-producing colour to dental equipment adds a great deal to its value but nothing to its moderate cost