Dr. Ralph and Mrs. Olga Crawford Canadian Dental Collection
Category
Dental
Classification
Dental
Accession Number
010020373
Description
Brown metal dental articulator consists of two parallel flat, oval, hollow pieces of metal divided into two sections each; bottom piece, lying flat on the ground, is attached to a perpendicular cylindrical handle; top piece is hinged onto top of handle; screw in middle adjusts angle of top piece re…
Brown metal dental articulator consists of two parallel flat, oval, hollow pieces of metal divided into two sections each; bottom piece, lying flat on the ground, is attached to a perpendicular cylindrical handle; top piece is hinged onto top of handle; screw in middle 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)
Plaster remnants all over articulator; metal tarnished
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Person
Book
Document
Reference Comments
Jill Burbank; "A Catalogue of Artificial Teeth, Dental Materials...", Claudius Ash & Sons, 1880, p. 231 (similar to #77); "George Burwell Snow Obituary", Dominion Dental Journal, Vol. 35, No. 4, 1923, p. 156-157
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; the Buffalo Dental Mfg. Co. was founded in part by Dr. George Burwell Snow, inventor of the Face-Bow and New Century articulator; he was president of the company off and on between 1869 and 1901, when he formed the Snow Dental Co.