Steelyard
Thomas Beach (fl.1766 - 1791)
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Lead, Paint, Steel
Measurements
45 mm (Width); 570 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338273.1
Summary
Steelyard engraved '145 T.Beach'. Shaft has shaped end. Two hooks on pivoting stirrups with fixed pointers, one each side of the beam, to hang the device. Two 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 3 to 30, the other from 30 to 140. 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
145 T. Beach
Makers and roles
Thomas Beach (fl.1766 - 1791)
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 7 The Cottage, 1944, page 14