Bismar
date: label: date made
content: 1700 - 1800
notes: label: Description
content: Bismar or unequal-arm balance scale consisting of a slender rod with turned spool-and-compressed-ball weight fixed at one end and an astragal-cornered diamond or lozenge shape load hook chased with the initial "K" suspended from the other end. Rod stamped with scale of fifteen small heart-shaped dots with very thin notches. Missing its sliding fulcrum or pivot.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Europe
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0939.045
label: accession number
content: 1978.0939
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0939.045
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bismar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (beam; weight; load hook material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, white (rivet on load hook material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (hanging wire material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 9 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 25.0825 cm x 3.175 cm