Review of the 2008 Annual Meeting

On Saturday, April 5, the Ohio Academy of Medical History convened in Cleveland at the Dittrick Medical History Center
located in The Allen Memorial Medical Library.

In the afternoon we held a panel discussion entitled Collecting medical and scientific antiques. These antiques have been sought by collectors for the past half century, but much has changed in just the past decade. To better understand the ins and outs, and the ups and downs, of collecting, we invited a panel of distinguished collectors to share their experiences, their triumphs and their frustrations. Where do you start collecting? What sources provide the best information and guidance? What has been the impact of eBay and other online markets? To explore these topics, we featured longtime friends of the Dittrick, including Percy Skuy (the Skuy Contraceptive Collection), Tony Tizzano, M.D. (specializing in ob/gyn antiques), Tom Peterson (scientific instruments relating to magnetism and electricity) and John Davidson (specializing in scientific instruments and microscopes). We also invited Andrew Richmond (Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers, Delaware, Ohio) to join us and provide an overview of the ‘trade’ from the perspective of an auction house that has featured medical antiques.

To listen to this panel presentation click on the following sections. The entire panel ran an hour and 50 minutes, therefore we have divided up the audio recording for more managable downloading.

Introduction by Jim Edmonson (3 minutes, 2 MB)
Tony Tizzano (17 minutes, 12 MB)
Percy Skuy (24 minutes, 17 MB)
John Davidson (20 minutes, 14 MB)
Tom Peterson (20 minutes, 14 MB)
Andrew Richmond (22 minutes, 16 MB)

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