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Two alcoholometers
Restitution status: Heirs being sought
Categories: Weapons and technical instruments
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
15396
Description
each in a wooden box made by Zlocha & Pausz, Vienna. 1.) No. 2759.C.G. 5343 v. J. 1873. Size of mantle: 19.29 in. long; diameter 1.18 in. Size of the alcoholometer: 16.73 in. long; diameter 0, 87 in. 2.) No. 1791.Wr.G. 7092 v. J. 1871. Size of mantle: 19.29 in. long; diameter 1.18 in. Size of the alcoholometer: 42,8 cm long; diameter 0.98 in.
Material
Wood, Further kinds of material
Period
2nd half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Wolf, Theodor Dr. Hofrat
Benefaction/donation/presentation from a private collection
Provenance according to museum / collection
With letter from 23.5.1938 the director of the Technical Museum Vienna confirmed the receipt of a coin balance and two alcoholometers as a donation and a punch with automatical counter as a loan from Dr. Wolf.
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has decided on the restitution of the art.
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has recommended that the art or cultural object is to be restored to the owners or their legal successors.
Federal Minister for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport
No decision has been reached so far.
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Annotations
In its meeting of June 1, 2007 the Advisory Board unanimously reached the following decision: The Advisory Board recommends to the Federal Minister for Education, the Arts and Culture that the mentioned objects from the Technical Museum Vienna with Austrian Mediatheque be handed over to the legal successors of Dris. Wolf. The aforementioned objects are listed in the file and designated with Hofrat Dr. Theodor Wolf.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism