Accession No

0060

Brief Description

money scales and weights, 1st 1/2 19th C

Origin

Maker

Class

balances

Earliest Date

1800

Latest Date

1850

Inscription Date

Material

metal (steel; brass); rope (cord); wood; cloth (velvet, silk); fishskin (shagreen)

Dimensions

box length 144mm; breadth 66mm; height 19mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple in Bruges in 08/1922.

Inscription

Description Notes

Steel beam and fittings; swan’s neck ends. Self-locating steel knife edge and ring bearing; index over with gallows with ring bearing; hook and tassel; two circular brass pans with cords and hooks. Circles marked on pans. Wooden box; lined with velvet and silk (just velvet; 25-1-2000) and covered with black shagreen; hook fasteners (do not fasten). Two sections for weights; 3 extant (? original) for 21s, 13s 6d, 5s 3d; denominations marked on weights.
Remnants of paper glued into lid; 25-1-2000.

Condition: fair.

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