Balance
name: label: maker
content: Kolesch and Company
label: maker
content: Kolb, Tobias Martin
notes: label: Description
content: This coin balance has a box with a drawer, which supports the brass pillar. The beam is iron. The two pans, one round and one triangular, are brass. The pulley cord that lifts the pan is broken and the weight, in shape of a lion, is inside the drawer in its recess. There are 27 coin weights, square-tapered style, and 1 fraction weight, inside a recess with a hinged lid. There is also a smaller, hand-held coin balance, made of brass and with two round pans. The balance is unmarked. The weights are marked with the name of the coins with which they correspond.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Nuremberg
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Art
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: 1991.0664.0895
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-06291
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 983
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 9 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in; 43.18 cm x 24.13 cm x 15.875 cm