Balance scale
Artist:
B. Dearborn, Boston
Date: c. 1819
Location where made:Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Location where used:Burlington, Vermont, United States
Medium: Wood, metal
Classification: Measuring Devices
Credit Line: Gift of Martha Brookes Hutcheson
Object number: 1939.23.6
DescriptionChemist's blance with weights (1939.23.7). Marked B. Dearborn Boston 1819.Base and two partly square, partly turned uprights of wood. Trays of bronze, cross of steel, trimmings of brass. Trays and hangars detachable from crossarms. Adjusted by brass finial at center of crossarm. Leveled by four screws at the corners of the base.
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