Trip Scale
date: label: date made
content: around 1900
name: label: maker
content: John Chatillon and Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Trip scale on a heavy iron base, designed for confectionary use. The two pans are missing, as are the two cylindrical weights that would fit into the holes at either side. The inscription on the graduated beam that supports the movable weight reads “J. CHATILLON & SONS.”
label: Description
content: John Chatillon (1813-1872) was an immigrant from Germany who began in business in New York in 1835, making spring scales and balances. The firm became John Chatillon & Sons in 1872.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Chatillon & Sons, <i>Catalogue of Spring Balances, Scales, Butchers’ Cutlery, and Other Goods</i> (New York, 1905), p. 164.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Detecto Scales, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.333717
label: catalog number
content: 333717
label: accession number
content: 1978.0424
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scale
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: pan: 16 mm x 109 mm; 5/8 in x 4 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.5 cm x 49.5 cm x 19 cm; 8 7/16 in x 19 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 19 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 20.955 cm x 49.53 cm x 19.05 cm