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Lot 3863 Session 13 (2.30pm Thu 27th March) Militaria
Estimate $50
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USA, METAL DOG TAG IMPRESSED 'OLIE E COOPER/20400806 T42 A/LUCY R COOPER/HOLTLAND TENN P'; two vials of Claustro-Thermal Catgut Sutures, U.S.P., medium chronic - Type C, in excess of 54 inches, by Davis & Geck, Brooklyn, New York, sutures with attached needle in liquid inside glass tube. The tag very fine, the vials extremely fine. (3)
All these items found at Guadalcanal, the island where Americans battled Japanese forces in WWII. These vials were probably made pre 1941 because in that year nylon was introduced by the manufacturers in place of catgut.
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