Balance weight set box
Category
Scientific instruments
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood; brass
Measurements
1.25 x 5.625 x 2.375 ins
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Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1274952.1
Summary
A wooden box 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.Two recesses are empty (for 1 grm weight and set of foil weights?).
Provenance
Bequest of George Bernard Shaw, 1950