Dr. Ralph and Mrs. Olga Crawford Canadian Dental Collection
Category
Dental
Classification
Dental
Accession Number
010020372
Description
Dental articulator consists of two parallel flat, rectangular pieces of silver metal; bottom piece, lying flat on the ground, is attached to a perpendicular rectangular piece of yellow metal, curving slightly backwards; top piece is hinged onto top of curved piece; screw at side adjusts angle of to…
Dental articulator consists of two parallel flat, rectangular pieces of silver metal; bottom piece, lying flat on the ground, is attached to a perpendicular rectangular piece of yellow metal, curving slightly backwards; top piece is hinged onto top of curved piece; screw at side adjusts angle of top piece relative to bottom piece
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Transfer from the Dental Canada Fund; previously housed in the Dentistry Canada Museum (Ottawa)
Jill Burbank; "A Catalogue of Artificial Teeth, Dental Materials...", Claudius Ash & Sons, 1880, p. 231 (similar to #75)
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 Jill Burbank, wife of Dr. Erwin C. Burbank, from Victoria, British Columbia; Dr. Burbank practiced dentistry in Montreal with his brother, Dr. Alton W. Burbank; Alton Burbank took over the practice of Dr. Stevenson, who graduated in the 1880s and was elected the first president of the Canadian Dental Association in 1902; a similar design in a Claudius Ash catalogue states that models will slide off and on easily, without disturbing the articulation