Weights and Balance
date: label: date made
content: ca 1750
name: label: maker
content: Aeckersberg, Johann Peter
notes: label: Description
content: Wood box with a small hand balance, six square brass weights, and a paper label in the lid that reads “Recht abgezogen Waag und Gewichte machte Meister Job. Pet. Aeckersberg im Oberbarmen auf Wichlinghausen. . . 175.”
label: Description
content: [made byJohann Peter Aeckersberg (1707-1790)]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia, Wichlinghausen
label: place made
content: Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia, Oberbarmen
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13046
label: accession number
content: 287884
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Weights, Set of
label: Object Name
content: weights
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (weights(7) material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 4 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 10.795 cm x 5.715 cm