Spring balance
Category
Metalwork
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Brass, Iron
Measurements
90 mm (Width); 300 mm (Length)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338276
Summary
Oval iron spring balance with crescent shaped brass scale, one large ring and one smaller ring, two weighing hooks below. Twisted steel, baluster shaped shaft of the measuring needle, which is forked to read both sides of the scale. One side marked 0-40, the other 20-300. In notebook no.7, page 14 (1340945.7) Charles Wade refers to: 'Kitchen no.264. 3 Spring Scales'. Includes sketch.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 7 The Cottage, 1944, page 14