Resection & Trepanation Set

Wooden box with corners, keyhole and recessed handle on the brass lid, 48 instruments in nickel-plated metal. Surgical panoply from the Collin house, bears on the top of the lid a brass cross with the words "Comité de Sèvres-Meudon" (indicating a society for helping the injured). Box made by (Anatole) Collin (1831-1923) with his signature on the lock. He took over the famous Charrière house after the premature death in 1865 of Jules Charrière, son and successor of Frédéric Charrière, Collin became sole owner from 1876. He was a supplier - among others - to civil and military hospitals. The box includes nearly 50 instruments, distributed over three removable trays, which form all the paraphernalia necessary for amputation and resection (a large saw, knives, scalpels, forceps, forceps, Gigli chain saw, etc.) as well as the instruments for trepanation (a complete trephine with its pommel and three cylindrical crowns, a brush, a lag screw, etc.). Beautiful set. Almost complete box, the instruments are stamped: "COLLIN". Traces of verdigris on the handles of the trays.