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date: label: date made
content: early twentieth century
name: label: maker
content: Buffalo Scale Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is essentially a steelyard mounted on a stand. The inscriptions at top and bottom read “BUFFALO SCALE CO.” One side of the beam is graduated from 0 to 160, and inscribed “BUFFALO / SCALE CO. / U.S.A.” The firm referred to this as a Paper Scale with Stand, noting that it was designed for “determining the number of pounds to the ream by the weight of one sheet.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Buffalo Scale Co., <i>Miniature Catalog, No. 526</i>, p. 20
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of City of New York
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0514.22
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0514.22
label: accession number
content: 1983.0514
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 45.7 cm x 41.3 cm x 16.5 cm; 18 in x 16 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/8 in x 16 1/4 in x 7 in; 46.0375 cm x 41.275 cm x 17.78 cm