Scales & Weights Division

Image Code D01

Catalogue No.: D01 Description: Victorian Era Postal Scale. In original condition together with three weights from 2oz to 8oz, all set on original bow front walnut base. Size: 150 X 115mm.

Image Code D02

Catalogue No.: D02 Description: German Balance Scales. Copper and brass on oak timber stand. Size: 440 X 330mm.

Image Code D03

Catalogue No.: D03 Description: Size: 450 X 180mm.

Image Code D04

Catalogue No.: D04 Description: Victorian Era Postal Scale. Small model in original condition with three weights (½oz - 2oz) all set on original bow front walnut base. Size: 170 X 95mm.

Image Code D05

Catalogue No.: D05 Description: European Postal/Parcel Scale. Featuring enamelled arc dial with fractional dual measurement by means of cantilever weight c 1920. Size: 275 X 185mm.

Image Code D06

Catalogue No.: D06 Description: English Postal Scale. In blue enamel and gold with front scale in original condition, c 1940. Size: 90 X 80mm.

Image Code D07

Catalogue No.: D07 Description: Salter Letter Balance Scales. With applied transfer of J W Wedderburn & Sons Pty Ltd of Sydney. Size: 180 X 120mm.

Image Code D08

Catalogue No.: D08 Description: Early Post Office Letter Scale. Quality original set with original xylonite plaque and six brass weights (½oz to 8oz), all mounted on original oak platform base. Size: 270 X 140mm.

Image Code D09

Catalogue No.: D09 Description: Early Cast Iron Scales. Marked "OK". Made in England, with original pan together with three weights; 4oz, 8oz and 1lb. Size: 350 X 200mm.

Image Code D10

Catalogue No.: D10 Description: Money Scales. Scarce set by Avery Ltd of Birmingham. To weigh coins and notes to 40oz capacity. Size: 310 X 175mm.

Image Code D11

Catalogue No.: D11 Description: Early Yarn Strength Testing Device. By Goodbrand & Co Ltd of Manchester, mounted on original wooden base. Size: 780 X 220mm.

Image Code D12

Catalogue No.: D12 Description: Brass/Iron Domestic Scales. Reconditioned and painted in black and gold together with a set of five weights, ranging from 2oz to 2lb. Size: 310 X 183mm.

Image Code D13

Catalogue No.: D13 Description: Art Nouveau Cast Iron Domestic Scale. With polished brass pan and superb original enamel face, c 1910. Size: 330 X 190mm.

Image Code D14

Catalogue No.: D14 Description: Brass Slab Weights. Set of four 19th Century slab weights - 5lbs, 10lbs, 20lbs, 50lbs. Ex Royal Mint, Perth. Size: 170 X 240mm.

Image Code D15

Catalogue No.: D15 Description: Cast Iron Weight. 56 lbs (half cwt). Size:213 X 155mm.

Image Code D16

Catalogue No.: D16 Description: 500 Troy Ounce Gold Weight. Scarce Victorian era brass weight used in eastern goldfields mining operations, c 1890's and of local manufacture with unusual two handle configuration. Size: 155 X 170mm.

Image Code D17

Catalogue No.: D17 Description: Early French Market Scale. Rare mid-19th Century 30kg capacity butcher's scale of Roberval type used in the market centre of Paris known as Les Halles. The ornate cast iron sides with relief decoration featuring bovine head terminals and the deities Asclepius and Aequitas as well as the polychrome armorial crest of Les Halles, Paris with Latin inscription Fluctuat Nec Mercitur. c 1880. Size: 720 X 260mm.

Image Code D18

Catalogue No.: D18 Description: Size: 610 X 425mm.

Image Code D19

Catalogue No.: D19 Description: Size: 580 X 410mm.

Image Code D20

Catalogue No.: D20 Description: European Beam Scale. Scarce type of all-over chromed brass construction with extremely sensitive movement, 1kg capacity, lift-out pans and central pillar sumounted by a ball, the beam marked C F. Mounted on restored original oak case with two drawers and complete with set of eleven brass weights from 1gm to 200gms, c 1900. Size: 600 X 590mm.

Image Code D21

Catalogue No.: D21 Description: Size: 550 X 230mm.

Image Code D22

Catalogue No.: D22 Description: Size: 230 X 128mm.

Image Code D23

Catalogue No.: D23 Description: Pocket Balance Scale. Up to 25lbs capacity with original brass pan and hangers. Size: 205 X 35mm.

Image Code D24

Catalogue No.: D24 Description: Sovereign/Half Sovereign Rocker Balance Coin Scale. Victorian era. Of brass construction for the detection of counterfeit gold coin. The receptacles marked sovereign and half sovereign were used to check the exact diameter and weight of the respective coins, while the slots were used to check the thickness. Size: 85 X 20mm.

Image Code D25

Catalogue No.: D25 Description: Cased Hand Held Scale. Original scale in steel with brass pans, as used by apothecaries, merchants, bankers, etc, in oak case, 19th Century. Size: 185 X 87mm.

Image Code D26

Catalogue No.: D26 Description: Cased Hand Held Scale. Rare early brass scale in chamois lined leather case as used in Italy c. 1790-1820 for the weighing of coinage by merchants and bankers, late 18th Century. Size: 190 X 85mm.

Image Code D27

Catalogue No.: D27 Description: Cased Hand Held Scale. Rare early brass scale in chamois lined leather case as used in Italy c. 1790-1820 for the weighing of coinage by merchants and bankers, late 18th Century. Size: 180 X 97mm.

Image Code D28

Catalogue No.: D28 Description: Cased Hand Held Scale. Early cased European scale in steel with brass pans, as used by apothecaries, merchants, bankers, etc, in original timber case, late 18th Century. Size: 147 X 70mm.

Image Code D29

Catalogue No.: D29 Description: Cased Hand Held Scale. Original hand-held beam scale in steel with brass pans, as used by apothecaries, merchants, bankers, etc, in original oak case, 19th Century. Size: 175 X 83mm.

Image Code D30

Catalogue No.: D30 Description: Cased Hand-Held Scale. Rare very early scale by Paulus Deiner (PD) with labelled recesses including knobbed weights recesses in the lid, the beam in steel with brass pans, made early 18th century but marked on rear of box "1788". Size: 208 X 80mm.

Image Code D31

Catalogue No.: D31 Description: Gold Guinea Scale, England, c.1840s. Size: 135 X 25mm.

Image Code D32

Catalogue No.: D32 Description: Cased Hand Held Scale. Steel beam with cord strings and glass pans in original black lacquered timber case, 19th Century. Size: 250 X 134mm.

Image Code D33

Catalogue No.: D33 Description: Salter's Letter Balance. Size: 95 X 20mm.

Image Code D34

Catalogue No.: D34 Description: Chinese Opium "Dotchin" Scales. 19th Century, as used on the Victorian Goldfields. Size: 310 X 75mm.

Image Code D35 Image Code D35a

Catalogue No.: D35 Description: Bucket Weights. Size: 32mm.

Image Code D36 Image Code D36a

Catalogue No.: D36 Description: Set of Weights. Size: 43 X 31mm.

Image Code D37

Catalogue No.: D37 Description: Collection of Weights. Size: 64mm dia.

Image Code D38

Catalogue No.: D38 Description: Roman Bronze Suspension Weight. 1st-4th Century AD. Superb pendulous form with eight faces tapering to a point at both ends and suspended at the top with a four faced ring and wire roping. Probably used as either a plumb bob or more likely, as the weight forming part of a distaff and spindle apparatus used to vertically spin yarn. Size: 51 X 13mm.

Image Code D39

Catalogue No.: D39 Description: Yaoure Bronze Gold Weight. Ivory Coast. Size: 37 X 45mm.

Image Code D40

Catalogue No.: D40 Description: Byzantine Glass Face Weight. c 10th Century AD. Delicate moulded glass weight in the form of a face, as used by merchants and traders for the weighing of precious gems. Glass. Ankara, Turkey. Size: 26 X 11mm.

Image Code D41

Catalogue No.: D41 Description: Byzantine Glass Face Weight. c 10th Century AD. Delicate moulded glass weight in the form of a face, as used by merchants and traders for the weighing of precious gems. Glass. Ankara, Turkey. Size: 33 X 11mm.

Image Code D42

Catalogue No.: D42 Description: Burmese Opium Lion Weight. Early lion opium weight on square base weighing 311gms, c 15th Century. Size: 64 X 31mm.

Image Code D43

Catalogue No.: D43 Description: Ancient Weight. Scales and weights preceded the invention of coinage by at least two thousand years. Stone was one of the first frequently used weight materials. Different civilisations used different kinds of stone and shaped and inscribed it for use. Bronze weights were used at a very early period in Mesopotamia and the Greeks employed lead weights. The Romans used stone initially, later bronze and later still, glass. Glass was also used extensively in the Islamic world. Size: 41 X 42mm.

Image Code D45

Catalogue No.: D45 Description: East Mediterranean Rock-Crystal Duck Amulet Weight, c 800 BC. With a description and dating by Professor W G Lambert of the Birmingham University, UK. Amulet of a sleeping duck with his head resting on his back. Such amulets were also used for hundreds of years as weights to measure precious material as gold and silver, etc. Culture: East Mediterranean, c 800 BC. Material: Crystal. Size: 22 X 11mm.

Image Code D46

Catalogue No.: D46 Description: Ancient Weight. Scales and weights preceded the invention of coinage by at least two thousand years. Stone was one of the first frequently used weight materials. Different civilisations used different kinds of stone and shaped and inscribed it for use. Bronze weights were used at a very early period in Mesopotamia and the Greeks employed lead weights. The Romans used stone initially, later bronze and later still, glass. Glass was also used extensively in the Islamic world. Size: 15 X 16mm.

Image Code D48

Catalogue No.: D48 Description: Ancient Weight. Scales and weights preceded the invention of coinage by at least two thousand years. Stone was one of the first frequently used weight materials. Different civilisations used different kinds of stone and shaped and inscribed it for use. Bronze weights were used at a very early period in Mesopotamia and the Greeks employed lead weights. The Romans used stone initially, later bronze and later still, glass. Glass was also used extensively in the Islamic world. Size: 34 X 26mm.

Image Code D50

Catalogue No.: D50 Description: Ancient Weight. Scales and weights preceded the invention of coinage by at least two thousand years. Stone was one of the first frequently used weight materials. Different civilisations used different kinds of stone and shaped and inscribed it for use. Bronze weights were used at a very early period in Mesopotamia and the Greeks employed lead weights. The Romans used stone initially, later bronze and later still, glass. Glass was also used extensively in the Islamic world. Size: 26mm dia.

Image Code D51

Catalogue No.: D51 Description: Ancient Weight. Scales and weights preceded the invention of coinage by at least two thousand years. Stone was one of the first frequently used weight materials. Different civilisations used different kinds of stone and shaped and inscribed it for use. Bronze weights were used at a very early period in Mesopotamia and the Greeks employed lead weights. The Romans used stone initially, later bronze and later still, glass. Glass was also used extensively in the Islamic world. Size: 52 X 42mm.

Image Code D52

Catalogue No.: D52 Description: Ancient Weight. Scales and weights preceded the invention of coinage by at least two thousand years. Stone was one of the first frequently used weight materials. Different civilisations used different kinds of stone and shaped and inscribed it for use. Bronze weights were used at a very early period in Mesopotamia and the Greeks employed lead weights. The Romans used stone initially, later bronze and later still, glass. Glass was also used extensively in the Islamic world. Size: 59 X 57mm.

Image Code D53

Catalogue No.: D53 Description: Early 20th Century Cast Iron Weight. Size: 130 X 56mm.

Image Code D54

Catalogue No.: D54 Description: Cased Set of Wool Classer's Weights. Wool classing test set of brass weights and tweezers in oak case by James H. Hewal & Co. of Halifax. c. 1920. Size: 405 X 182mm.

Image Code D55

Catalogue No.: D55 Description: Steel Plumb Bob. Turned and knurled steel, 143gm. Size: 161 x 38mm.

Image Code D56

Catalogue No.: D56 Description: Steel Plumb Bob. Early French manufacture with separate cover plate, 311gm. Size: 138 x 75mm.

Image Code D57

Catalogue No.: D57 Description: Steel Plumb Bob. Early French manufacture, 276gm. Size: 185 x 15mm.

Image Code D58

Catalogue No.: D58 Description: Steel/Brass Plumb Bob. Marked "12", 373gm. Size: 220 x 14mm.

Image Code D59

Catalogue No.: D59 Description: Steel Plumb Bob. Early French manufacture, 953gm. Size: 88 x 29mm.

Image Code D60

Catalogue No.: D60 Description: Steel Plumb Bob. With screw-in top, 186gm. Size: 40 x 61mm.

Image Code D61

Catalogue No.: D61 Description: Brass/Steel Plumb Bob. Elongated carrot shape, 438gm. Size: 41 x 62mm.

Image Code D62

Catalogue No.: D62 Description: Large Balance Scale. Size: 756mm.

Image Code D63

Catalogue No.: D63 Description: Early Century Produce Sclaes. Size: 408 X 370mm.

Image Code D64

Catalogue No.: D64 Description: Large Balance Scale. Size: 760mm.

Image Code D65

Catalogue No.: D65 Description: Laboratory Balance Scale, late 19th century. Size: 380 X 345mm.

Image Code D66

Catalogue No.: D66 Description: Large Balance Scale. Size: 1610 X 1000mm.

Image Code G20

Catalogue No.: G20 Description: Scales used during the 19th Century to weigh opium & often used to weigh gold. Size: 500 x 150mm.

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