Balance
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This is an early eighteenth century hand-held coin balance in a wooden box. It has a 5-inch iron beam, and 1.6-inch brass pans. The interior lid of the box has a paper label which lists the weights of gold and silver coins of various European countries. The box has recesses for a nested weight set and some fraction weights. The weights are missing.
label: Description
content: Coin balance with 5-inch iron beam, index, and 1.6-inch brass pans. The paper label reads "TABLE des Monnaies d'or et d'argent qui ont cours dans les differens Etats / de l'Europe, avec la designation de leur poids."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0664.0898
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 986
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0898
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
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content: iron (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 6 3/4 in x 2 in; 1.5875 cm x 17.145 cm x 5.08 cm