Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1925
label: date made
content: around 1900
name: label: maker
content: Howe Scale Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is an unequal-arm balance with an iron base painted red with a gold design. A decal on the base reads “HOWE / TRADE MARK” and “5377” appears in raised numbers. The brass beam is marked “HOWE” and “1038.” There is one iron weight marked “2766” on the top and “2702” on the bottom; and an unmarked cylindrical weight.
label: Description
content: The Howe Scale Company began in business in 1847; moved from Brandon to Rutland, Vt., in 1873; won medals at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, and the Paris Exposition of 1878; and introduced balances of this sort around 1880.
label: Description
content: Ref: Howe Scale Co., <i>Catalog No. 48</i> (1925), p. 12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, Rutland
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of City of New York
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0514.10
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0514.10
label: accession number
content: 1983.0514
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23.5 cm x 22.3 cm x 48.2 cm; 9 1/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 19 in