Weight set
Category
Scientific instruments
Date
Unknown
Materials
Mahogany
Collection
Cragside, Northumberland
NT 1229609.2
Summary
Series of seventeen weights, square, tapering slightly towards top, each with hook and the following numbers, 1) two weights, 2) one weight, 3) one weight, 4) four weights, 6) one weight, 8) one weight, 12) two weights, 16) one weight, 30) one weight, 32) one weight, 72) one weight, 120) one weight, accompanying mahogany apparatus (MISC/1258.1).
Provenance
Armstrong collection. Transferred by the Treasury to The National Trust in 1977 via the National Land Fund, aided by 3rd Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside (1919 - 1987).