Object Details
- Description
- Hand balance with a 6-inch iron beam with index, 2.5-inch brass pans, rectangular wooden case, four nested brass weights, and five rectangular brass weights. A paper label in the lid of the box reads: “A TABLE of the Value and Weights of Coins, as they now pass in England, Philadelphia and New-York.” It also reads: “N.B. In Boston and Connecticut Dollars pass for 6S. and C (?) by weight.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- ca 1790
- Credit Line
- Janice M. Bryant
- Measurements
- overall: 3.5 cm x 18.2 cm x 9 cm; 1 3/8 in x 7 3/16 in x 3 9/16 in
- Object Name
- Scale
- balance
