Platform Scale
date: label: Date made
content: 1850-1900
label: Date made
content: late 19th century
label: date made
content: around 1925
name: label: maker
content: Howe Scale Company
notes: label: Description
content: Large and ornate double-beam platform scale made of cast iron painted red and gold with floral designs. The upper beam reads from 1 oz. to 10 lbs.; the lower beam reads from 8 oz. to 40 lbs. The inscriptions at the top and on the sides read “HOWE.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Howe Scale Co., <i>Catalog No. 48</i> (1925), p. 331.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1983.0514.04
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0514.04
label: accession number
content: 1983.0514
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Platform Scale
label: Object Name
content: platform scale
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 72.5 cm x 61.5 cm x 45.3 cm; 28 9/16 in x 24 3/16 in x 17 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 in x 24 1/4 in x 17 in; 73.66 cm x 61.595 cm x 43.18 cm