Balance
date: label: date made
content: 1800 - 1850
label: date made
content: mid-nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: Brass hand balance with a 4.75-inch beam, index, 2.5-inch pans, and three circular brass weights. The remnants of a paper label in the lid of the rectangular wooden box read “...ORGAN BROTHERS / …LANE / ...ON.” Morgan Brothers was a London firm that was in business by 1860, advertising as “Druggists, Sundrymen, Merchants & Manufacturers,” with factory at Battersea, and warehouse at Bow Lane.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the American Pharmaceutical Association
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13059
label: catalog number
content: M-13059
label: accession number
content: 321641
label: catalog number
content: 321641.030
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance, Hand
label: Object Name
content: balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (pans(2) material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (weights material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (beam material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (hanger material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (string material)
label: Measurements
content: overall - case: 1 1/2 in x 6 7/8 in x 3 5/16 in; 3.81 cm x 17.4625 cm x 8.41375 cm