Accession No

0091

Brief Description

scales and weights, 18th C

Origin

Maker

Class

balances

Earliest Date

1700

Latest Date

1800

Inscription Date

Material

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

Dimensions

box length 227mm; breadth 95mm; height 35mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

The connection of this object to the Whipple Collection is uncertain. The accession register records that Robert Stewart Whipple bought a weight in Dover in 01/1923. This entry has been subsequently altered to read "Money scales and weights in leather covered box,” but this alteration may reflect a correction to the original entry rather than the reallocation of the accession number. See 0089 for an entry on the same page that has been corrected in the same hand.

Inscription

Description Notes

Blued steel beam and fittings; single-O beam ends; self-locating knife edge and ring bearing; index with elaborately pierced base (acorn top??;10-2-2000); gallows with ring bearing (part beneath gallows a replacement?; 10-2-2000); circular brass pans with decorative engraved concentric circles and maker’s mark.
Wood box (?not original) covered with tooled leather and lined with marbled paper. 13 miscellaneous weights.
[see catalogue card for mark on pans]

Condition: fair.

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