Accession No

0357

Brief Description

nest of brass weights (8lb), Nuremberg type, by Caspar Leitner [1689-] or Martin Harburger [1709-] or Joh Paulus Dimmler [1730-], German, 18th Century

Origin

Germany; Nuremburg

Maker

Leitner, Caspar or Harburger, Martin or Dimmler, Joh Paulus

Class

weights & measures

Earliest Date

1675

Latest Date

1775

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass); rope (thread)

Dimensions

diameter 101 mm; height 82 mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple from Antique Art Galleries, Grafton Street, on 03/08/1927.

Inscription

mark: Squirrel and CL

Description Notes

Nest of brass weights (8lb), Nuremberg type, German, 18th C.

Nuremberg type; master cup with raised hinges and clasp piece. Turned supports for handle which incorporates two anthropomorphic heads. Clasp piece with ‘head’; decorated with incised circles and stamped ‘8’ and with makers mark 3 times.
Outside of cup divided by raised horizontal ribs with stamped and punched decoration of scrolls and flowers; inside of master cup decorated with incised circles.
Eight cup-weights all stamped with their denomination - ‘2’, ‘1’, ‘16’ (loths), ‘8’, ‘4’, ‘2’, ‘1’, and 1/2 without stamp. Disc missing.

Condition good; incomplete

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