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date: label: date made
content: around 1925
name: label: maker
content: Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: This is an example of the “New Triumph Plate Glass Box Prescription Scale” that, Troemner boasted, was “Built like the Wise Man’s House—upon a Rock. No springs to snap. Strongly built, yet sensitive—all Bearings of Selected Russian Agates.” The inscription on the ivory scale reads “HENRY TROEMNER / PHILADELPHIA.” That on the brass tag on the base reads: “HENRY TROEMNER / MAKER / PHILADELPHIA, PA.” The large red cardboard box is marked “NEW / TRIUMPH / AGATE BEARINGS CRYSTAL BOX / PRESCRIPTION SCALE / NO. 542 / HENRY TROEMNER, PHILADELPHIA, PA. U.S.A.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Troemner ad in <i>The Spatula</i> 20 (1913): 616.
label: Description
content: Henry Troemner, <i>Catalogue</i> (Philadelphia, 1916), p. 20.
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 the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0605.28
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0605.28
label: accession number
content: 1985.0605
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 32.6 cm x 22 cm x 17.2 cm; 12 13/16 in x 8 11/16 in x 6 3/4 in