Toy Toledo Scale, Model 728
date: label: date made
content: ca 1935
name: label: maker
content: Toledo Scale Company
notes: label: Description
content: In the late nineteenth century, Allen DeVilbiss, Jr., of Toledo, Ohio, invented a new form of scale that lacked the usual springs in such instruments and included a printed table for computing the price of the object weighed, given the price per unit weight. DeVilbriss soon sold his patent rights and they passed to a firm run by Henry Theobold, a former employee of the National Cash Register Company. Under Theobold’s leadership, the Toledo Scale Company became a leading manufacturer of scales for industry, transportation, and stores. This is a small model of the Toledo Model 728, a computing scale used in retail stores during the 1930s.
label: Description
content: The instrument has an iron frame painted red, a metal lever and indicator, and a paper multiplication table. The table gives multiples of 2 cents, 4 cents and 6 cents by 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Instead of a weighing pan, there is a circular ring about the size of a penny.
label: Description
content: A mark on the front reads: TOLEDO. A mark on the back reads: NO (/) SPRINGS (/) HONEST (/) WEIGHT. A mark on the inside of the base reads: TS729.
label: Description
content: For a much larger Toledo scale, with related references, see 2005.0100.140.
label: Description
content: Online source suggest that toy Toledo scales were made and sold by the Kilgore Manufacturing Company of Westerville, Ohio.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: Toledo Scale Company, <I>Toledo Scales for Retail Stores</I>, Toledo: Toledo Scale Company, 1934, Form A-1384.
label: Description
content: Bob Terry, <I>Honest Weight: The Story of Toledo Scale</I>, XLibris Corporation, 2000.
label: Description
content: The website www.antiquetoysandautomata.com, accessed July 18, 2017.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Toledo
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edith R. Meggers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.335276
label: catalog number
content: 335276
label: accession number
content: 314637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (table material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 cm x 10 cm x 3 cm; 3 15/16 in x 3 15/16 in x 1 3/16 in