Steelyard
E. Whitfield & Sons
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Steel
Measurements
55 mm (Width); 745 mm (Length)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338312
Summary
Steelyard engraved '158 E. Whitfield and Sons'. 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 missing. There is a different scale on each side of the beam - one marked from 0 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
158/E.Whitfield and Sons
Makers and roles
E. Whitfield & Sons