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Small 3" steel coin balance

Made:
1693-1702 in London
maker:
John Snart
Small 3 steel coin balance, with 1 guinea

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Small 3 steel coin balance, with 1 guinea
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Small 3" steel coin balance, with 1 guinea, 1/2 guinea and 20/- weights, and six small grain weights, in tooled beechwood case, with label of maker John Snart, London, and bearing the Stuart arms of William and Mary, 1689-1702. Sensitivity 0.3 gr.

Details

Category:
Weighing & Measuring
Object Number:
1937-878
type:
money scales and coin beamscale
credit:
Greaves, A.K.

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