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Balance
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Hand-held coin balance with an iron beam, and pans and weights of brass. There are 18 square-tapered weights and 8 fraction weights, housed in a hinged wooden case. The set was made in Germany by John Peter Poppenberg, and dated 1780.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineBalance. ca 1780. John Peter Poppenberg. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
