Accession No

0061

Brief Description

jewellers scales and weights, by Jan Linderman, Dutch, second half of 18th Century

Origin

Netherlands; Amsterdam

Maker

Linderman, Jan

Class

balances

Earliest Date

1750

Latest Date

1800

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, steel, silver); wood; paper; rope (cord); cloth

Dimensions

box length 109mm; breadth 57mm; thickness 25mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Dese Gewigte werden Gemaakt en
Verkogt by Ioannes Linderman op
de Beurs en in de Kalverstraat naast de
Kerk de Papegay inde Goud Balans
Tot Amsterdam.’ (label in lid)

Description Notes

Steel beam and fittings; swan’s neck beam ends; self-locating knife edge and ring bearing; index over with aperture in base; gallows with ring bearing and brass loop to tassel. (Bottom part of gallows missing??; 26-1-2000). Two circular silvered brass pans with suspension cords. Fitted wooden box; slot with sliding lid for carat weights; only 2 remain, stamped 32 and 16. Hand coloured label on box lid; box with carved crest on lid and hook fastenings.

Condition: fair; incomplete.

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