BRASS AND STEEL SPRING-LOADED SURGICAL BLEEDERS / LANCETS, LOT OF FIVE, each with steel release bar, one example with a small area of hand engraved decoration. Each fitted in original leather- or paper-covered wooden dome-top case, including one example with handwritten "Spring Lance" and another example with impressed "Traunichtesbeit". 19th century. 1 3/8" x 2 3/4" and 1 1/2" to 3 3/4" cases.
Very good overall condition with expected usage wear, blade edges with roughness and some light rust, cases with moderate wear losses to the coverings, one example with a broken spring bar.
Provenance: The estate collection of Alan R. Shirkey, Harrisonburg, VA.

Very good overall condition with expected usage wear, blade edges with roughness and some light rust, cases with moderate wear losses to the coverings, one example with a broken spring bar.