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date: label: date made
content: late nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: Small nickel plated box marked “DR. C. H. FITCH’S PRESCRIPTION SCALE / PATENTED SEPT. 29TH 1885.” Calvin H. Fitch was a doctor who lived in several New England towns, and had several patents to his name.
label: Description
content: Advertisements noted that this device was manufactured by N. V. Randolph & Co. in Richmond, Virginia, in 1891; and by the Randolph Paper Box Co., also in Richmond, in 1901.
label: Description
content: Ref: Calvin H. Fitch, “Prescription Scales,” U.S. Patent 327,152 (Sept. 29, 1885).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Richmond
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Anton Hogstad, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.M-03936
label: accession number
content: 134491
label: catalog number
content: M-03936
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 2 7/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 7.3025 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 7/8 in x 2 13/16 in x 1 7/16 in; 2.2225 cm x 7.14375 cm x 3.65125 cm