Steelyard
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Iron, Lead, Paint, Steel
Measurements
622 mm (Length)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338269.1
Summary
Steelyard engraved '150 Th. Whitfield - improved maker'. Shaft has shaped end. Two hooks on pivoting stirrups with fixed pointers, one each side of the beam, to hang the device. Two long hooks on a stirrup which can pivot to either side of the beam to hold the item being weighed. One traveling hook for the weight, which is painted red. There is a different scale on each side of the beam - one marked from 5 to 40, the other from 40 to 160. In notebook no.7, page 14 (1340945.7) Charles Wade refers to: 'Kitchen no.261. 8 Steelyards of various sizes'.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
150...Improved Maker
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 7 The Cottage, 1944, page 14