Temperature Scale for Pocket Hygrometer
date: label: date made
content: 1830-1850
notes: label: Description
content: Circular disc with a temperature scale marked "PASTORELLI / LONDON". Temperatures read clockwise high to low, from 120 degrees to -20 degrees, with ranges labeled Fever Heat, Blood Heat, Summer Heat, Temperate, and Freezing. Pierced with eight holes, two at top threaded with green string tied in a loop and six at bottom arranged into two sets of two small and one large. Plain back. Hinged, red, circular pressed paper case has padded front interior lined with white silk satin; inside back is lined with red velvet. Two small hook-and-eye clasps at side. Rectangular green printed label on back "SOLD BY / COOK & LEADBEATER / Chemists & Druggists, / King Street, / ALEXANDRIA."
label: Description
content: Instrument maker is Anthony Pastorelli of London, England; active, 1829-1846/8. Retailed by Cook & Leadbeater in Alexandria, VA.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
label: place sold; place used
content: United States: Virginia, Alexandria
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Heirs of William and Dennis Ramsay
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.220760.006
label: accession number
content: 220760
label: catalog number
content: 220760.006
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scale, temperature
label: Object Name
content: case
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (disc material)
label: Physical Description
content: wool (hanging loop material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper, pressed (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (case hardware material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (case lining material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (case lining material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 2 5/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 6.6675 cm x 6.6675 cm