Balance
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
name: label: maker
content: Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: Balance with an 8-inch skeletal nickel-plated beam, nickel-plated hangers and pans, and ivory scale marked “HENRY TROEMNER / PHILADELPHIA.” The Eastlake-style wood base has one drawer and a reddish marble top. Troemner termed it a prescription scale.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Troemner, <i>Price List of Fine Scales and Weights</i> (Philadelphia, 1889), p. 22.
label: Description
content: Henry Heil, <i>Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Chemical Apparatus</i> (St. Louis, 1903), p. 114.
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: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Schrader's Pharmacy, through Harry L. Schrader
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302607.117
label: catalog number
content: 302607.117
label: accession number
content: 302607
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: case: 45.5 cm x 42 cm x 21.5 cm; 17 29/32 in x 16 17/32 in x 8 15/32 in