Mineralogical Field Kit
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1898
label: date made
content: 1859-1889
name: label: property of
content: Richards, Robert H.
label: maker
content: Plattner, Karl Friedrich
label: maker
content: August Lingke & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This sturdy wooden box contains tools recommended for mineralogical analysis by Carl Friedrich Plattner (1800-1858), Assay Master at the Royal Smelting Works in Freiburg, Saxony. The “August Lingke & Co. in Freiburg” inscription on the ivory scale is that of August Friedrich Lingke (1811-1874), a noted instrument maker who began in business under his own name in 1859. Max Hildebrand acquired the firm in 1873, but continued trading as August Lingke & Co. until 1889.
label: Description
content: Victor Goldschmidt, a professor of metallurgy at the University of Heidelberg, gave this kit to Robert Hallowell Richards, a metallurgist and mining engineer at M.I.T. Richards gave it to the metallurgist, Gar A. Roush; and Roush’s widow gave it to the Smithsonian.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg im Breisgau
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. G. A. Roush
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315918.01
label: catalog number
content: 315918.01
label: accession number
content: 222975
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus for Mineralogical Analysis
label: Object Name
content: Mineralogical Assay Kit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood; glass; metal; ivory (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 11 3/4 in; 17.145 cm x 22.225 cm x 29.845 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 13/16 in x 11 7/8 in x 8 7/8 in; 17.30375 cm x 30.1625 cm x 22.5425 cm