Weighing scale

Collection object


1981.0031
H. 77.5 L. 86.8 W. 50.9
Weighing balance, Avery, to weigh 5 cwts, from Clune's Tobacco Factory. Consists of a central iron upright supporting two wooden platforms, one for the object being weighed, the other for weights, near ground level. These platforms are attached to one iron upright each, one from the back of the platform, the other from the centre, which are attached by iron bars through the central upright, on which they pivot. The tops of these uprights have small wooden platforms, the outer of which move with the platforms. The whole is on an openwork iron base, with wheels on one end. Inscribed W & T Avery, and To weigh 5 cwts. Trades, labour


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