Pick Counter
date: label: Date made
content: Early 20th century
name: label: manufacturer
content: Chronik Bros.
notes: label: Description
content: This brass pick counter is marked “CHAS. LOWINSON / SOLE AGENT N.Y” and “PAT. OCT. 20 – 08” and “PAT. SEPT. 20 – 10” and (on back) “CHRONIK BROS / MFRS. N.Y.” According to advertisements, the form was used by appraisers at the Port of New York, and the Quartermaster Dept. in Philadelphia.
label: Description
content: August Chronik (1862-1942) and his brother Louis (1864-) were born in Hungary, came to the United States in the early 1880s, and invented or improved several mechanical devices. Charles Lowinson was a businessman.
label: Description
content: Ref: August Chronik and Louis Chronik, “Thread Counting Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 901,879 (Oct. 20, 1908).
label: Description
content: August Chronik and Louis Chronik, “Thread Counting Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 970,795 (Sept. 20, 1909).
label: Description
content: Ad for “Lowinson’s Triplex Thread Counting Micrometer” in <i>Textile World Record</i> 38 (Nov. 1909): 181.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: manufacturer
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: maker's community
content: Hungarian Americans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0234.01
label: patent number
content: 901,879
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0234.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0234
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pick counter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall (pick counter): 2 5/16 in x 3 3/8 in x 2 9/16 in; 5.87375 cm x 8.5725 cm x 6.50875 cm