Record

Ref NoRCSI/Silver/71
TitleSamuel Hobart Esq. plate
DescriptionSilver plate with very ornate floral decoration. Inscription reads 'Presented to Samuel Hobart Esq. Surgeon by the friends of John Wright in token of the skill and attention displayed in an operation [sic] called aneurism of the subclavian artery performed on the 7th May 1835 being one of great difficulty and danger and seldom known to succeed but in the present instance most happy in its results'. Sticker on the back of the plate reads 'Mary Dunlop (Mrs), Sierra, Carrigaline, Co. Cork'.
LevelItem
Date07 May 1835
FormatSilverware
Access ConditionsBy appointment with RCSI Heritage Collections
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