Balance
date: label: date made
content: mid-twentieth century
name: label: maker
content: Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: Robervahl balance with nickel-plated pans and ivory index, mounted in a wooden box with variegated marble slab and glass cover. A brass tag in front reads “HENRY TROEMNER / MAKER, PHILADELHIA, PA. / CAP. 1 OZ. NO. 200 C.B. / MADE IN THE U.S.A.” A brass button on the front reads “PENNA & N.Y.C. APP’D – TYPE 16” and “SERIAL W2.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Troemner, <i>Catalogue No. 1919</i> (Philadelphia, 1919), p. 25.
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: George Washington University, School of Pharmacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10917
label: catalog number
content: M-10917
label: accession number
content: 259201
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: marble (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 7/16 in x 13 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in; 18.89125 cm x 34.925 cm x 15.875 cm