special pliers?

[oldgoaly]

 marked Sharp & Sinth  Chicago  a dental tool?

[rusty]

I suspect it says Sharp & Smith, look closely.

Smith was The H.D.Smith fellow we all know and love, the endeaver with Perine Sharp was for making surgical tools. (1876-?)

Sharp was in business before then, but had a little incident with a large fire...

[oldgoaly]

I looked at with my magnifying lamp, I enlarged and crop the name.

[Papaw]

Small pincers.

[oldgoaly]

doooaaah just remembered that I didn't put a ruler next to it... dang it I hate when that happens. it is about 12" long.

[RWalters]

First, let me say I wouldn't let my dentist any where near me if he was holding those. They may be a medical/dental/veterinary implement as there was a Sharp & Smith company at 100 Randolph Street in Chicago that made surgical instruments in the 1800s. So far, nothing on Sharp & Sinth.

[rusty]

The catalog shows a tool with a similar jaw shape and configuration, identified as bone cutting forceps...(ouch!)