Accession No

0025

Brief Description

money scales and weights, by Caspar Grevenberg, German, 1703-1738

Origin

Germany; Cologne

Maker

Grevenberg, Caspar

Class

balances

Earliest Date

1703

Latest Date

1738

Inscription Date

Material

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

Dimensions

box length 124mm; breadth 70mm; thickness 33mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple in Antwerp in 03/1922.

Inscription

‘Recht Abgezogene wag
und Gewieht
Machtm: Jaspar Grevenberg
der Stalt Cöllen geschworner
ÿeh At Wohnet unter
tese hehntaehen Anno.’ (lid of box)
‘C G’ (triangular pan)

Description Notes

Steel beam and fittings (badly rusted and not original) - ring-neck beam ends, index pointer above knife and ring bearing. Gallows with ring bearing. Brass pans, one circular and one triangular with maker’s stamp. Cords for suspension (one broken on triangular pan; 26-1-2000). Fitted oak box with slots for 5 weights; lidded slot for 5 fractional weights. Further eight slots in lid with sliding cover. All weights extant. (Writing above each slot; 26-1-2000). Paper label on lid of slot in box lid with engraving of death (skeleton) holding hour-glass and other figures.
Box with geometricised floral tooling. Hook fastening.

Condition: fair (rusty).

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