Accession No

1168

Brief Description

money scales and weights, by Tönnis Medtman, German, 1635-1666

Origin

Germany; Cologne

Maker

Medtman, Tönnis

Class

balances

Earliest Date

1635

Latest Date

1666

Inscription Date

Material

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

Dimensions

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, University of Cambridge (now Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) in 1953. From the collection of Baron Anatole von Hügel.

Inscription

‘TM’ (triangular pan)
‘Virtutibus aurum viliis WD’ (in ink on sliding panel in lid)

Description Notes

Steel beam; ring neck beam ends (lack gallows and ring bearing). Steel index. Silvered brass pans; one circular; one triangular with maker’s mark; suspension cords.
Fitted box with slots for 10 weights and 15 further slots in lid with sliding cover. Slot for fractional weights with sliding lid (none extant). 14 weights extant. Weights miscellaneous, one with stamp of Antwerp maker.
On base two labels from Hügel collection.
Box badly wood-wormed. Hook fastening.
[further information on maker’s marks on catalogue card]

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