Nested Weights
Nested Weights
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- Description
- Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian, bought this set of nested weightsit for the Museum in 1902. The set had been found in the walls of a former mint, in Nuremberg.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Nested Weights
- Object Type
- Weights
- Date made
- 17th century
- 1600-1700
- 1600 to 1700
- purchased by
- Langley, Samuel Pierpont
- Measurements
- outfit on platform scales:;
- overall: 8 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 22.225 cm x 16.51 cm
- overall in case: 8 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 20.955 cm x 16.51 cm
- ID Number
- CH.215568
- accession number
- 40029
- catalog number
- 215568
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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