Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1900
name: label: maker
content: Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: Counter balance in a wood and glass case. The pans are brass, 9 inches diameter, and marked “H. TROEMNER / MAKER / PHILADELPHIA.” Troemner introduced this form in 1890, describing it as the “New ‘AGATE’ Plate Glass Box Scale” that was “entirely new in form and design, elegant in finish, being made with Beveled Glass fronts, ends and top.” “The inside works are highly finished in nickel, and of a new and handsome design. All working parts are jeweled, being set with Russian ‘Agates’; this makes the scale indestructible, lasting a lifetime without repairs.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Troemner, <i>Price List of Fine Scale and Weights</i> (Philadelphia, 1890), p. 16.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10752.01
label: accession number
content: 256193
label: catalog number
content: M-10752.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: bronze pans: 7/8 in x 9 in; 2.2225 cm x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 21 in x 9 in; 26.035 cm x 53.34 cm x 22.86 cm