Accession No

1169

Brief Description

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

Origin

Germany; Cologne

Maker

Graefenberg, Caspar

Class

balances

Earliest Date

1703

Latest Date

1738

Inscription Date

Material

metal (steel, brass); 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, 1915:159.

Inscription

‘CG’ (on triangular pan)

Description Notes

Steel beam and fittings; swan’s neck beam ends; self-locating steel knife edge and ring bearing; gallows with ring bearing; index pointer with ring aperture in base. one brass circular pan; one brass triangular pan with maker’s stamp.
Fitted wooden box with slots for 5 weights; slot with sliding lid for fractional weights; sliding lid in lid for 8 weights. (One weight missing; 5 fractional weights extant).
Box decorated with geometric tooling. Single hook fastening.

Condition fair; incomplete (some weights missing)

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