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Your Price: $ 219.00
Item Number: LBSCWRSJS
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Circa: 1800's
Condition: used antique, very good
Country of Origin: Canada
Manufacturer: unknown
At first glance one might think this to be just another antique saw. Something a carpenter
Might have used to build an item out of wood.
That image is quickly dispersed after reading the marking found on the bow of this saw.
The doctors at ‘St. Catherine’s’ did not build tables or chairs with this heavy old saw. Rather they used it to remove limps that were beyond any hope of saving. Removing leg or arms required a large saw like this to cut through the bones. Doing do also required a strong stomach. Just thinking of such a brutal operation makes me shiver.
Although this saw is marked as being owned by St Catherine’s Can., It was purchased from a Civil War enthusiast in Virginia, which leads to the conclusion that there is a high likelihood this saw and the doctor who used it, left his post at St. Catherine’s Hospital and made his way south to help fill the enormous need for surgeons and doctor to help treat the wounded and dying men who fought on both sides during our country’s Civil War. Chances are this gruesome tool of medicine was used time and time again at some make shift field hospital within earshot of some battle between North and South.
I have seen pictures of the tools and the hospitals and one thing is for certain. We can all be thankful for the hospitals available to us now.
Saw measures 22 long by 7 at the highest and has a well used, but still sharp 15.5 inch blade.
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