Metal scales

Metal scales, iron beam with circular bronze pans

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Metal scales, iron beam with circular bronze pans
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Metal scales, iron beam with circular bronze pans, green cord supports, Algiers, Algeria, 1890-1920; old R card notes, "with extra pair of bronze pans and one odd pan," only two pans

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A38925
Materials:
iron, bronze and cord
Measurements:
overall: height 255 mm
overall: length 360 mm
pans: diameter 112 mm
beam: length 250 mm
pivot: height 150 mm
type:
scales - weighing device
credit:
Wellcome, Sir Henry Solomon