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Balance
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About this work
Small balance with a 9-inch iron beam—inscribed “T. BEACH” on one side, and “BEACH” on the other—and two brass pans 5 inches diameter. The whole is held in a rectangular oak box. Thomas Beach was a balance maker in Birmingham, England.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineBalance. late eighteenth century. Beach, T.. National Museum of American History, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood. CC0.