Accession No

4486

Brief Description

money scales, 18th Century

Origin

Maker

Class

balances

Earliest Date

1700

Latest Date

1800

Inscription Date

Material

metal (gold, steel, brass); rope (cord); wood; organic (tortoise shell)

Dimensions

box length 110mm; breadth 53mm; height 17mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Inscription

‘Mr Bowman
SAVAGE GARDENS
Tower Hill’ (gold plate in box)

Description Notes

Steel beam and fittings; self-locating steel knife edge; cord gallows (gold? top) and ring bearing, steel hook with tassel; steel index with blued base. Circular gold pans suspended by cords (box beam ends, part gold (?); 10-2-2000).
Wooden box with brass hook catches. Fitted for weights. Seven square gold weights, each surmounted by a knob, numbered 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
(Gold maker’s plate forms hinge lid for slot for fractional weights. Five fractional weights extant. Made of tortoise shell, and marked by dots, one to six; two is missing; 10-2-2000).

Incomplete (one fractional weight missing).

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