Kitchen scales
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
Unknown
Materials
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Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638733
Summary
A set of kitchen balance scales with a cruciform support for a dish and an elongated octagonal stand for the weights each raised on counterbalanced arms set within a moulded base and united by a suspended rectangular frame. Originally black lacquered, later painted silver and much decayed with rust [.1]. A circular white enamel dish with green reverse, associated with the kitchen scales [.2]
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.