Balance weight set
Category
Scientific instruments
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass
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Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1274952
Summary
A wooden box (A) with a hinged lid, with recesses for the contents, lined with purple velvet. The lid is held closed at the front with two brass hooks. Contains a pair of brass tweezers (B), and eight circular brass weights C - J with knobs, stamped: 100 grm (C); 50 grm. (D;, 20 grm (E); 10 grm (F and G); 5grm (H); 2 grm (I and J). Two recesses are empty (for 1 grm weight and set of foil weights?).