Weight Card, Philadelphia Scale and Testing Machine Works, Philadelphia, Pa., 1880s

A weight card used to advertise the products of the Philadelphia Scale and Testing Machine Works, which was operated in the 1880s by the Riehlé Bros. firm. See also the illustrations of scales, hand trucks, and machines on the other side of the card.

 

For information about the printer of the card, see the Burk & McFetridge entry in the Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers.

 

For a similar item, see Weight Card, Howe Standard Scales, Philadelphia, Pa., 1879.

 

Philadelphia Scale and Testing Machine Works

 

Works: Ninth & Master Sts.

Warerooms: Fourth St. ab. Chestnut

 

Philadelphia, ________ 188

 

Riehlé Bros.

Standard Scales

 

Weight, 167 lbs.

Height, ________ ft. ________ in.

 

Philada. Scale Works

 

Standard

Trade Mark

 

Established, 1846.

 

Burk & McFetridge, Prs.

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