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Originally Posted by Iliad
Thanks Atlantia, for the reply. Could the tweezers be used for extracting a musket ball from a wound?
Brian
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Hi Brian
They could probobly fix a monobrow or help to shape a fabulous moustache!
Seriously though, a set of tweezers is a very useful little tool.
The fact that they lock might be a clue? (if they are not for personal grooming that is)
Presumably they have mis-shapen with time and when originally made the sliding lock could be moved down to 'lock' them shut, which would have possibly made them usable as a medical clamp?
I could be mistaken but they don't look like they'd be the right shape to insert into a bullet hole to grab a musket-ball, but they would possibly work to temporarily clamp off an artery or some other internal tubing if you'd been sliced open?
ATB
Gene
P.S. is that embroidered 'symbol' on the scabbard a word of character?
Might be a clue there?