Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1905
name: label: maker
content: Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: Large Robervahl balance with the number 1148 embossed, twice, on the cast iron frame, and “TROEMNER PHILADELPHIA” inscribed in the center of the large flat copper pans. This was probably made in 1905, when the federal Assay Office in Denver became the Denver branch of the U.S. Mint.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Balance Equipment of the Denver Mint,” <i>Mining and Scientific Press</i> 90 (1905): 42.
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: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Denver Mint
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.330613
label: catalog number
content: 330613
label: accession number
content: 302218
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: each pan: 3.8 cm x 33.5 cm; 1 1/2 in x 13 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.8 cm x 75 cm x 34.2 cm; 7 in x 29 1/2 in x 13 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 13 in x 29 3/4 in; 19.05 cm x 33.02 cm x 75.565 cm