Specializing primarily in Dental Antiques, Ephemera and Images plus some Medical and Veterinary Artifacts
My name is Ben Z. Swanson, Jr. My user I.D. on eBay changed in 2003 from Ben@32TerrificTeeth.com which is my email address taken from my Web site 32TerrificTeeth.com to 32TerrificTeeth32.
I have bought and sold on eBay since August of 1998. For many years I advertised to buy medical and dental items. As a result, people sent me duplicate artifacts plus other objects that are rare and interesting, but outside the scope of my primary collections. This forms the basis of my extensive stock.
Areas of Special Interest
Dental Postcards; Dental Trade Cards; Breath Perfume Containers especially brass Cachou Boxes; Dental Tokens including counterstamps, shell cards, Civil War, etc.; Dental Containers, especially early tins for tooth powder; Dental Advertising Pocket Mirrors; Dental Medallions; Early Dental Photographs. Items can be from any country.
In the medical field (to include dental, pharmacy, veterinary, podiatry, optometry, etc.):
Advertising Facsimile Bank Notes; Quack Galvanic Batteries; Medical Cameos (embossed) on covers, billheads and trade cards.
Other subjects of interest:
Monaural Stethoscopes; Ear Trumpets; Gout; Early Venereal Disease, especially having to do with Salvarsan (606) or arsphenamine; Enema Syringes and Devices; Podiatry and Treatment of Corns and Bunions; Early Surgical Instrument Manufacturers; and Veterinary Dentistry.
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