Sandon's prototype cleft palate forceps, nickel plated, probably made by Roland Somervell, 1950s.
Used to grip the mucosa under the palate shelf.
This prototype is likely to have been made by Roland Somervell, an employee of surgical instrument manufacturers Downs Brothers, for Raoul Sandon. Two other prototypes of the same idea are held in the BAPRAS Antony Wallace Archive, along with a letter sent to Sandon by Somervell in 1956 which accompanied a pair of the prototype forceps. It doesn't appear that the forceps ever went into production.
