Weights
date: label: date made
content: 1898-1907
name: label: maker
content: Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: Set of circular brass and smaller square aluminum weights in a wooden box. A label on top of the box reads “CHI-CHE-STERS PREMIUM / PRESENTED BY / CHICHESTER CHEMICAL COMPANY / PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.” A paper label inside the box reads “CHICHESTER CHEMICAL CO.’S PREMIUM PRESCRIPTION WEIGHTS . . . Made especially for the Chichester Chemical Company, Philadelphia, and guaranteed and accurate by / Henry Troemner, Manufacturer, Philadelphia, Pa. U.S.A.
label: Description
content: The Chichester Chemical Company was a patent medicine firm that was in business by the late 1880s, incorporated in 1918, and led by Davitt D. Chidester (1851-1927). The firm fell afoul of the federal government in the 1920s when the Food and Drug Administration found that its Diamond Brand New Style Pills consisted essentially of ferrous sulphate and plant material, primarily aloe, and the claims on the package were “false and fraudulent.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.1573
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1573
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: weight set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (weights material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label inside material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 12.7 cm x 7.5 cm; 13/16 in x 5 in x 2 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall; in box: 13/16 in x 5 in x 3 in; 2.06375 cm x 12.7 cm x 7.62 cm