Scale pan and vertical balance

Made:
1801-1900

Scale pan and vertical balance, copper, yshaped support to rest pan on, pivoted, Ashanti tribe, West African, 19th century

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A78966
Materials:
copper and pan, brass
Measurements:
height 208 mm
max.: width 7 mm
pan: diameter 78 mm
pan: depth 9 mm
type:
scales - weighing device

Parts

Scale pan for vertical balance

Scale pan for vertical balance

Scale pan for vertical balance, copper, yshaped support to rest pan on, pivoted, Ashanti tribe, West African, 19th century

Measurements:
height 208 mm
max.: width 7 mm
pan: diameter 78 mm
pan: depth 9 mm
Materials:
copper and pan, brass
Object Number:
A78966/1
type:
scale pan
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Vertical balance without scale pan, copper, yshaped support to rest pan on, pivoted, Ashanti tribe, West African, 19th century

Vertical balance without scale pan, with y-shaped support to rest pan on

Vertical balance without scale pan, copper, yshaped support to rest pan on, pivoted, Ashanti tribe, West African, 19th century

Measurements:
height 208 mm
max.: width 7 mm
pan: diameter 78 mm
pan: depth 9 mm
Materials:
copper and pan, brass
Object Number:
A78966/2
type:
balance

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