Bronze scale origin
c. 20th century
This scale was a common tool used in the marketplace in Vietnam before modern weighing devices.
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Bronze scale
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Description
A traditional bronze balance scale, commonly used by food vendors in Vietnam to weigh produce and other goods in the marketplace before modern weighing devices. After resettling in the U.S. as a refugee, Huỳnh Đức Diêu, currently residing in Louisiana, returned to Vietnam and acquired this scale as part of his effort to preserve tangible reminders of daily Vietnamese life.
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Rights description
Object donated to the Vietnamese Heritage Museum by Huỳnh Đức Diễn
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Timeline
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Bronze scale collected by Diêu Đức Huỳnh
Post-1975Huỳnh Đức Diêu returned to Vietnam after resettling in Louisiana in the U.S. and acquired objects that remind him of Vietnamese daily life, such as this traditional scale.
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Bronze scale donated to Vietnamese Heritage Museum
September 2022Donated to the Vietnamese Heritage Museum.