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Ashanti gold-takers scales

1400-1499

Gold and Silver accountant's scales, Persian

1900-1899

Ashanti gold-takers scales

1400-1499

Bullion balance, 7" steel beam, in tooled beechwood case

1708-1714

Wrought-iron bullion balance, c.A.D.1800, French. Beam 60cm (23 5/8"), open box-ends, knife-edge fulcrum in forked suspension. Pans of sheet iron with 3 chain supports, one round dished, 28cm (11" diam.) and one "slipper" pan 47.5cm (18 3/4") by 32.5cm (12 3/4")

Wrought-iron bullion balance

1800-1810

Small Bullion Balance with wooden beam, (early 19th cent.). To carry 100 oz. Troy

Bullion balance with wooden beam

1807-1847

Bullion balance by L. Oertling, London (No.33167) 30" Beam, model BB, capacity 1000oz. Troy

Bullion balance by L. Oertling

1914

100 oz "Auctioneers' Plate Valuing" sensitive brass balance and weights by De Grave and Co., 1901-2, for silver specie, in fitted mahogany case 22"x11 1/2"x5" deep. (Also used in valuations for probate etc. Listed by De Grave Short and Co. Ltd, London, in catalogue of 1900

Portable auctioneer's equal-arm balance

1901-1902

Bank of England Bullion Balance of 1820. Steel beam 28" long inscribed on one face "Bank of England AD 1820" and on reverse face "J. Barton, Invr. AD 1820; Maudslay and Co. Fecerunt". Fitted steel knife edges, pan shackles with double steel bearing planes, downward pointer and gravity screw bobs for sensitivity adjustment

Bank of England bullion balance by Maudslay & Co

1820

Large Bullion balance, AD1750, with 4'-3 1/4" ornamental iron beam with forked central suspension and upward pointer, and two bronze scale pans, 20" diam. each, with 3 double-link chain supports, with tripod suspension pieces. Stands 7'6" high overall, sensitivity 48 grains

Bullion Balance, Mid 18th Century

1740-1760

French Banker's Balance for small bullion and set of brass cup weights up to 2 Marcs, in case, by Godefroid of Paris. Late 18th century. In pearwood case size 25cm x 12cm x 5cm. Length of beam 8.25ins., sensitivity 0.5

French Banker's Balance for small bullion and set of brass cup weights up to 2 Marcs

1780-1800

Large Bullion Balance by R.B. Bate, with wooden beam (early 19th cent.). To carry 1000 oz Troy. With 42" mahogany beam and geared relieving mechanism. Sensitivity 1 grain for 1 small diversion movement of downward pointer

Large Bullion Balance by R.B. Bate

1807-1847

Bullion Balance made by Richard Vandome in 1819; supported on oak and cast iron frame. Beam 45" between pan supports, round pan 20 1/2" diam, sensitivity 2 grains (pans empty) with copper plaque.

Bullion Balance made by Richard Vandome in 1819

1819