Object Details
- Description
- This balance came from John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936), an American pharmacist, eclectic physician, and novelist. The pans are 9.75-inch diameter. The “J. WILBANK / PHILADA” inscription on both sides of the blackened brass beam is that of John Wilbank, a German immigrant who, in 1828, cast a new bell for the city of Philadelphia, to replace the Liberty Bell which had cracked while ringing out the celebration of Lafayette’s visit 1824. In 1840, Wilbank operated a brass and bell foundry; offered scales of every description; and ran a silk factory.
- Ref: Michael Flannery, John Uri Lloyd. The Great American Eclectic (Carbondale, Il., 1998).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- user
- John King, M.D.
- maker
- Wilbank, John
- date made
- mid-nineteenth century
- around 1840
- Credit Line
- Gift of John Uri Lloyd
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Object Name
- Balance
