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date: label: date made
content: around 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Large brass scale with “J. MARDEN” and “BALTIMORE” inscriptions on both sides of the beam. Jesse Marden (1806-1877) was a scale maker in Baltimore who displayed a platform scale at the Maryland Institute fair of 1849 and was awarded a first premium. His son continued the business.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12402.1
label: catalog number
content: M-12402.1A
label: accession number
content: 285854
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (disjoint section material)
label: Measurements
content: beam: 28 in x 19 in; 71.12 cm x 48.26 cm
label: Measurements
content: pans: 10 in; 25.4 cm