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Simmons' Improved Sovereign balance

Made:
1840-1850 in England
designer:
Simmons, Charles
Simmons' Improved Sovereign balance, c

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Simmons' Improved Sovereign balance, c.1840, to weigh Sovereigns and Half-sovereigns and to gauge both by diameter and thickness, in brass, 4" long x1"x3/4", stamped: Sovereign ( Crown) Warranted

Details

Category:
Weighing & Measuring
Object Number:
1953-369
type:
money scales and rocker balance - scales
credit:
Stead, P.C.

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