Object Details
- Description
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Henry Troemner
- date made
- late nineteenth century
- Measurements
- weight 1:;
- weight 2:;
- weight 3:;
- pan: 102 mm; x 4 in
- overall: 19.8 cm x 10.2 cm x 27.4 cm; 7 13/16 in x 4 in x 10 13/16 in
- dish: 93 mm; x 3 11/16 in
- overall: scale: 7 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 19.685 cm x 26.035 cm x 9.525 cm
- overall: weights, in container: 2 in x 1 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 3.81 cm
- Object Name
- Trip Scale
- Object Type
- Scales
