Platform Scale
Platform Scale
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- Description
- Large and ornate double-beam platform scale made of cast iron painted red and gold with floral designs. The upper beam reads from 1 oz. to 10 lbs.; the lower beam reads from 8 oz. to 40 lbs. The inscriptions at the top and on the sides read “HOWE.”
- Ref: Howe Scale Co., Catalog No. 48 (1925), p. 331.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Platform Scale
- platform scale
- Object Type
- Scales
- Date made
- 1850-1900
- late 19th century
- date made
- around 1925
- maker
- Howe Scale Company
- Measurements
- overall: 72.5 cm x 61.5 cm x 45.3 cm; 28 9/16 in x 24 3/16 in x 17 13/16 in
- overall: 29 in x 24 1/4 in x 17 in; 73.66 cm x 61.595 cm x 43.18 cm
- ID Number
- 1983.0514.04
- catalog number
- 1983.0514.04
- accession number
- 1983.0514
- Credit Line
- Gift of City of New York
- subject
- Weights & Measures
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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