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.,...

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

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

England, circa 1795-1798, an all brass self rising boxed counterfeit detector, signed Wilkinson for the half Guinea and Guinea. It is in excellent wo

United States, c. 1870, a brass counterfeit coin detector manufactured by J. ALLENDER. This instrument had five places for each of the current Americ

China, c. 1650-1750 AD. a very rare all silver steel-yard scale complete with hall-marked rectangular weight. The round pan has a scalloped rim which

China, 19th century. A typical "Dotchin" violin shaped wooden box scale with ivory beam and brass rectangular weight. The round brass pan...

Burma, c. 1850, An unusual boxed opium scale with equal arm balance. The beam measures 17.5 cm. in length. Each terminal ends in an arrow shape. The

England, c. 1900, a yarn scale contained in a leather covered box and presented in a red velvet cushioned box. The apparatus has its own weighted sta

England, c. 1920, another yarn scale. This one is labeled Blackburn's Yarn Balance, John Nesbitt, Limited, 42 Market Street, Manchester. Simila...

Germany, Frankfurt am Main, c. 1900, a boxed pocket diamond scale complete with all the carat weights (and a shovel tweezers inside the brown box lid