Balance
date: label: date made
content: mid-nineteenth century
label: date made
content: around 1840
name: label: user
content: John King, M.D.
label: maker
content: Wilbank, John
notes: label: Description
content: This balance came from John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936), an American pharmacist, eclectic physician, and novelist. The pans are 9.75-inch diameter. The “J. WILBANK / PHILADA” inscription on both sides of the blackened brass beam is that of John Wilbank, a German immigrant who, in 1828, cast a new bell for the city of Philadelphia, to replace the Liberty Bell which had cracked while ringing out the celebration of Lafayette’s visit 1824. In 1840, Wilbank operated a brass and bell foundry; offered scales of every description; and ran a silk factory.
label: Description
content: Ref: Michael Flannery, <i>John Uri Lloyd. The Great American Eclectic</i> (Carbondale, Il., 1998).
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Uri Lloyd
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02049
label: accession number
content: 84176
label: catalog number
content: M-02049
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)