Balance
date: label: date made
content: ca 1780
name: label: maker
content: John Peter Poppenberg
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Hand-held coin balance with an iron beam, and pans and weights of brass. There are 18 square-tapered weights and 8 fraction weights, housed in a hinged wooden case. The set was made in Germany by John Peter Poppenberg, and dated 1780.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0664.0897
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 985
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0897
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scale
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 7 3/16 in x 3 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 18.288 cm x 9.525 cm