Balance
date: label: date made
content: late nineteenth century
name: label: maker
content: Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: Balance with a cylindrical marble base and column, 8.5-inch brass beam, and the inscriptions “H. TROEMNER” and “PHILAD.” This had some connection with the California physician, George Horace Coshow, and Capt. Henry Fahnestock MacComsey, U.S.N.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Troemner, <i>Price List of Fine Scales and Weights</i> (Philadelphia, 1889), p. 16.
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: American Pharmaceutical Association
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12400
label: catalog number
content: M-12400
label: accession number
content: 285854
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (hangers(2) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (pans(2) material)
label: Physical Description
content: stone, marble (?? material)
label: Measurements
content: overall - stirrup: 8 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 1/8 in; 20.32 cm x 8.255 cm x 5.3975 cm