After @theAliceRoberts posted about using an old bone box for Christmas decoration storage, I thought I'd do a thread about bone boxes. https://twitter.com/theAliceRoberts/status/1337156816954920968

It used to be that all medical students would have a "half skeleton" for study purposes, and there were a number of suppliers - this one is from Adam, Rouilly, who were founded in 1918, and still supply medical teaching models.

Here we can see their label - "The House for Human Skeletons"

Skeleton box content list...

This is a rather damaged label from Donald Ferrier, a purveyor of medical supplies based on Teviot Place in Edinburgh - just across from the Medical School (and @TeviotPlace!)

Young J. Pentland was another place you could go in Edinburgh for your bone buying needs.

James G. Bisset in Aberdeen was not just a bookseller and stationer, but also would supply osteological material for medical students.

...And in Glasgow, John Smith and Son were fulfilling a similar role - Booksellers, stationers, surgical instruments and appliances

Millikin and Lawley supplied osteological material from various addresses in the Strand in London from 1815-c.1910.

Here's another of their labels (this photo isn't mine)

This is the label from another Glasgow-based dealer providing student osteological sets - unfortunately the name can't be made out

In the 1980s things moved towards using replica bones for teaching purposes - here's a letter from 1989 about the advantages of using plastics instead.