Bronze scale origin
This scale was a common tool used in the marketplace in Vietnam before modern weighing devices.
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.
Object donated to the Vietnamese Heritage Museum by Huỳnh Đức Diễn
This scale was a common tool used in the marketplace in Vietnam before modern weighing devices.
Huỳnh 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.
Donated to the Vietnamese Heritage Museum.