Trip scale with 4-inch pans; graduated beam with 120 divisions, marked GRN and in GRAN; and sliding weight. The base is cast iron, with a tag that reads “HENRY TROEMNER / MAKER / PHILADELPHIA, PA. / CAP. 4 OZ NO. [blank].” A shelf in front is meant to hold 5 brass weights (3 of which survive). Troemner introduced this form in the late 1870s and kept in production for many years.
Ref: Weeks & Potter, Revised Catalogue of Foreign and Domestic Drugs (Boston, 1879), pp. 99-100.
Henry Troemner, Price List of Fine Scales and Weights (Philadelphia, 1889), p. 18.
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