Name/TitleA Guinea Scale

About this objectFolding brass Guinea Scales in a fitted wooden box. The box has a "push" catch at one end, and also contains a legend.

Medium and MaterialsBox: Wood
Scale: Brass

Inscription and MarksThe legend in the box reads:
The be at the end for a Guinea other way for Half-a-Guinea, and the slide at the cipher where it will stop - it stops several times in removing towards the centre each a fathing above the standard - when gold is short of weight remove the slide the other way. When every division is a penny.

MeasurementsClosed:
L: 136mm
W: 25mm
D: 19mm

Open:
L: 263mm
W: 25mm
D: 75mm

Object numberSTMEA:2013-96

Copyright LicenceAttribution - Non-commercial (cc)