Postal scales
Category
Desktop & office
Date
1876 - 1901
Materials
Brass, Wood
Measurements
165 x 305 mm; 400 mm (Length)
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 883707.1
Summary
Late Victorian brass postal scales with eight weights; 2 x 4 lb are in recesses in the shaped wooden base either side of ivory labels, the writing worn off, and in a pile in centre in front of the labels are six weights, 2 lb, 1 lb, 8 oz, 4 oz (theft of original 2 oz and 1 oz in April 2000 but a 2 oz weight added in 2001 from store and a 1 oz given 2012). The 2 oz and 1 oz weight STOLEN end of July 2014.
Provenance
A gift from Victor Agar-Robartes, 8th Viscount Clifden, after the death of his sister, Everilda, in 1969. He did not wish to live at Lanhydrock so those items not already given by the 7th Viscount Clifden were either sold or acquired by the Trust. (See 1972 inventory)
Marks and inscriptions
(impressed in brass mechanism) Warranted/accurate