| Reference Number | READ/138 |
| Title | Folding Curved Bistoury |
| Date | 1875-1925 |
| Creator Name | Savigny and Co., Surgical instrument manufacturer, fl. eighteenth-mid. nineteenth century |
| Description | A folding curved bistoury, consisting of a curved, probe-pointed bistoury blade, secured and housed in a curved tortoiseshell sheath. The blade, engraved with 'SAVIGNY', can be extended using a small hinged lever. |
| Extent | 1 item |
| Dimensions | 110mm x 5mm x 10mm |
| Digital Collections | View online in our digital collections |
| Copyright | Free to use under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
| Credit Line | Royal College of Physicians of Ireland |
| Object Name | Surgical Knife |
| Term | General Surgery -- Instrumentation |