| George Washington's Teeth | |
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Origin |
George Washington |
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Type |
Dentures |
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Effects |
Leads struggling nations through war. |
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Downsides |
User's teeth will rot out extremely fast. |
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Activation |
Owning. |
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Collected by |
Eugene Head |
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Section |
Yazoocity 3 |
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Aisle |
339993-99293 |
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Shelf |
230-93883-98844 |
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Date of Collection |
April 2nd, 1901 |
| [Source] | |
Origin[]
George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in June 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and then served as president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which drafted and ratified the Constitution of the United States and established the American federal government. Washington has thus been called the "Father of his Country".
During his life, Washington had four sets of dentures. He began wearing partial dentures by 1781. Despite many people believing they were made of wood, apart from his first pair, which were handcrafted by Messrs. Halford, Martin and Winfield, at Webs Furniture Training in Nottingham, England (1783), from birch plywood, they contained no wood, and often would have been made of teeth extracted from enslaved people, as well as other materials such as hippopotamus ivory, brass and gold. The dentures had metal fasteners, springs to force them open, as well as bolts to keep them together.
Effects[]
Leads struggling nations through war but the user's teeth will rot out extremely fast.
Collection[]
Collected by Eugene Head on April 2nd, 1901.
Originally in the possession of John Greenwood, Washington's dentist, giving them to a revolutionary war vet before their family moved to Africa in the mid 1860s amidst the American Civil War. The dentures were used during the Second Boer War before being collected by Warehouse 12 agent Eugene Head, shortly before the ending of the war in 1902.