demonstration stand
Date1893-1912
Inventory Number1997-1-1768a
ClassificationDemonstration Apparatus
Subject
Maker
Queen & Company
1893 - 1912
Cultural Region
Place of Origin
Dimensions7.5 × 43.4 × 7.4 cm (2 15/16 × 17 1/16 × 2 15/16 in.)
Material
DescriptionA long, rectangular wooden plank with an upright attached a few inches from each end by metal screws. The uprights each have a semicircular cutout.
Signedinscribed on brass plaque: Queen & Co. Philada.
Inscribedinscribed on brass plaque: Queen & Co. Philada.
FunctionThe device may have been used as a stand to support an instrument horizontally or as a platform or base.
Its most likely orientation was with the plank on the bottom.
Its most likely orientation was with the plank on the bottom.
Buff & Buff Manufacturing Company
Date: circa 1905
Accessories: wood case; leather case; right-angle prism; plumb bob; oil flask; tripod (5174b)
Object number: 5174a
W. & L. E. Gurley
Date: ca. 1884
Accessories: solar attachment; case; level; green filter; sun shade; tripod (5163b)
Object number: 5163a
American
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Object number: 1996-1-0428
Damon Engineering, Inc.
Date: 1962-1972
Object number: 2006-1-0079
James W. Queen & Company
Date: 1880-1890
Object number: 1998-1-0170