Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1900
name: label: maker
content: Exupere, L.
notes: label: Description
content: This balance, designed for weighing packages of silk or other fibers, has a wood base, 18-inch brass pillar, brass beam, one round brass pan, one square brass pan with two high sides, and a “EXUPÈRE / PARIS / 71 / RUE DE TURBIGO” inscription. Philippe-Antoine-Leon Exupère (b. 1838) was a prominent balance maker in Paris who won awards at several international exhibitions.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Troemner, <i>Catalogue 1919</i> (Paris, 1919), p. 66.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12176
label: catalog number
content: M-12176
label: accession number
content: 272102
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance, Equal Arm
label: Object Name
content: balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (disjoint section material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 in x 7 1/2 in x 23 1/2 in; 58.42 cm x 19.05 cm x 59.69 cm