Duchess of Marlborough's Scales

Inventory Number:

11736

Object Type:

Object

Subject Classification(s):

Scales, balances & steelyards

Accession Number:

1925-12

Primary Inscriptions:

Metal label on cabinet: 'Presented by Lily Warren / Duchess of Marlborough / to the University Museum Oxford / on the decease of the Most Noble / George Charles Duke of Malborough / November 9th 1892'. DELEUIL A. PARIS

Provenance:

Transferred from the Department of Chemistry, Oxford, in 1925, per Professor Frederick Soddy. From the Duke of Marlborough's collection, presented to the University by the Duchess of Marlborough after his death in 1892.

Collection Group:

Material(s):

Wood
Glass
metal
Iron
copper alloy
celluloid
Ebonite?

Dimensions: