Bismar
Bismar
- Description
- Bismar or unequal-arm balance scale consisting of a slender rod with turned spool-and-compressed-ball weight fixed at one end and an astragal-cornered diamond or lozenge shape load hook chased with the initial "K" suspended from the other end. Rod stamped with scale of fifteen small heart-shaped dots with very thin notches. Missing its sliding fulcrum or pivot.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1700 - 1800
- place made
- Europe
- Physical Description
- brass (beam; weight; load hook material)
- metal, white (rivet on load hook material)
- iron wire (hanging wire material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 in x 9 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 25.0825 cm x 3.175 cm
- ID Number
- 1978.0939.045
- accession number
- 1978.0939
- catalog number
- 1978.0939.045
- Credit Line
- Gift of John Paul Remensnyder
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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