Weight
Category
Metalwork
Date
1876 - 1901
Materials
Brass, Wood
Measurements
165 x 305 mm; 400 mm (Length)
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 883707.8
Summary
A circular brass 2 oz weight. This has been added to a set of weights for a late Victorian brass postal scale with eight weights; 2 x 4 lb are in recesses in the 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, 2 oz and 1 oz (theft of smallest two original weights in April 2000, but this 2 oz weight added in 2001 from store and a 1 oz weight given 2012). STOLEN Juy 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.
Marks and inscriptions
(impressed in brass mechanism) Warranted/accurate