Scale, Balance
- Object Name:
- Scale, Balance
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.554
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Pan scale, from a pharmacy. Rectangular wooden box with removable white marble top. Two removable metal pans. Two removable three-pronged metal pan holders. Circular brass-framed glass window on front, with two indicator arrows, one for each pan. Four round pad feet. Printed green paper seal, New Hampshire Department of Weights and Measures, dated 1940; originally adhered to front.
- Material:
- Wood
Stone
Marble
Metal
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-7.5 W-18.5 D-7.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Wilfred B. Osgood Pharmacy Collection, consisting of the 1870s-1950s contents of the Knox Pharmacy (owned by Fred L. Knox) and Roberts Rexall Store (owned by George C. Roberts) in Farmington, NH. Wilfred Osgood purchased both pharmacies in the late 1940s/early 1950s, and kept the original furnishings from both stores. During the 1970s, he created a pharmacy display room from the contents of both stores. This collection is the contents of that display. The collection also includes manuscripts, books, photographs, and printed ephemera, transferred to NHHS library (1992-068).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Donna T. Osgood in memory of Wilfred B. Osgood
- Subjects:
- Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Drugstores, Scales, Weights and measures
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