CIVIL WAR ERA CAST IRON AND LEATHER DENTAL FIELD CHAIR
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CIVIL WAR ERA CAST IRON AND LEATHER DENTAL FIELD CHAIR in a fitted oak box; stamped U. S. A. S.S.W.; accompanied by a multi-lingual instructional diagram; length of box: 39 inches; NOTE: S. S. White Technologies, Inc. started in Philadelphia in 1844 as a tooth factory founded by Dr. Samuel Stockton White, (b.1822). White's tooth factory became the largest dental manuracturing company in the world, with offices in New York, Boston and Chicago and catalogues translated in Spanish, French and German. Dr. White was a visionary and a tireless inventor with ten patents to his name. During the Civil War, soldiers were required to have six upper and six lower teeth to bite off the end of a powder cartridge. Dr. White as the head of the American Dental Association met with Abraham Lincoln with a proposal to provide dental services to Union soldiers. Because of logistics issues, nothing came of White's proposal, however, this chair is possibly a model of a chair he presented to Abraham Lincoln.
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CIVIL WAR ERA CAST IRON AND LEATHER DENTAL FIELD CHAIR
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