General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

2

AKA

specialist's chair

Patents

N/A

General Description

All metal, save black leatherette covering on headrest. Arms and tap head fittings are nickel-plated. Cream, pale pink and pale green paint visible on select areas of chair frame, especially legs, brace, treadle, chair back mounting and on back of chair back.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

60.0 cm

Width

50.0 cm

Height

104.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Medical Technology

Category

Medical equipment

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Woolf

Country

United States of America

State/Province

New York

City

New York

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

The chair available, and presumably used in early 20th c.

Canada

Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material and trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON. Found by original donors in pieces in garage in Thornhill, Ont. Garage/contents was/were property of Dr. Charles Percival John. Dr. John graduated with a BA in 1896; MDCM in 1900 from Queen's University. He was registered in 1900 [as a licensed physician ?], and listed in 1928 O[ntario] Medical R[egister, Registry ?] as living in Thornhill.

Function

To comfortably seat patient and place him/her in relatively immobile position for examination.

Technical

Example of early examination chair, designed and marketed specifically for medial professionals/for use in a "professional" setting.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Metal plate fixed to frame, below seat reads "WOOLF INSTRUMENT CORPORATION/ MANUFACTURERS OF OPHTHALMIC APPLIANCES/ No. 516 FIFTH AVENUE [upside down triangle motif- text inside is illegible] NEW YORK/ MADE IN U.S.A."

Missing

Unknown: Stripped by donor, but never refinished; not all parts may be original.

Finish

all metal, save black leatherette covering on headrest. Arms and tap head fittings are nickel-plated. Cream, pale pink and pale green paint visible on select areas of chair frame, especially legs, brace, treadle, chair back mounting and on back of chair back.

Decoration

Chair back and brace between legs incorporate "W".