WEIGHTS, SCALES, & SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

France, c. 1825, a coin scale with an equal arm balance with a steel beam measuring 14 cm. in length. The pans are copper and measure 5.3 cm in diame

Germany, Nuremberg, c. 1750-1770, a fine boxed scales with eight square knob handled brass weights, all with coin designs by the knobs. Weight design

Germany, Berlin, c. 1850, a leather boxed coin scale with thirty-six round knobbed weights each hall-marked and labeled for a specific coin value set

Germany, Berlin, c. 1850, a leather boxed coin scale with sixteen round knobbed weights each labeled with a coin denomination. The weights and scale

Great Britain, c. 1790, a small shagreen box with single top hasp housing a small steel balance and three Owens brass guinea weights with four fractio

Holland, Amsterdam?, c. 1650, a rectangular tooled wooden boxed coin scale with round and triangular pans. The steel balance beam is12 cm. in length.

Italy, c. 1800, a rectangular boxed scale with a fine set of fifteen round brass coin weights set in eight round compartments in a chamois lining. Th

Ottoman Empire, c. 1875, a nickel, tumbril counterfeit detector. There are seven spaces for the current coins to be balanced. L; 9 cm.   ...

England, c. 1800, a japanned oval box with guinea weights and an equal arm balance. The beam and box are of iron, the pans are copper as are the weig

England, C. 1850, a brass "rocker" for sovereigns and half sovereigns. With the original box, maker: Smith's. Scales virtually mint.,...