Nick,
Great! Thanks. Very interesting. No doubt this will be hard to pin
down.
Here are a few more examples:
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 12:55
PM
Subject: Re: VMs: Libra
Hi everyone,
For scales, how could I have possibly
overlooked the International Society
of Antique Scale Collectors
(ISASC)?
http://www.isasc.org/home.htm
...and
here's the Dutch Association of Scales and Weights Collectors
website,
plus their list of scale-related museums across Europe:-
http://home.planet.nl/~gmvv/
http://home.planet.nl/~gmvv/musea.html
There
are some amazing scales to be seen:-
http://www.antiquescalecollector.com/pages/846445/index.htm
The
closest one I've found (to the VMs' Libra) is a "Poison Scale", a
'brass
beam scale with buckets made of porcelain include the text "MOSCHUS"
(
Musk)':-
http://scales-and-weights.net/scales/scaleidx.htm
http://scales-and-weights.net/scales/html/pharma/beammoschus.htm
Another
bibliography / book-list on weights:-
http://www.galatacoins.demon.co.uk/books/weight.html
Rene
is correct, in that these hand-scales are completely standard -
however,
as materials and scale production techniques evolved, so perhaps
did the
standard (after all, the point about hand scales would surely have
been
they were portable - so weight would have been important, etc).
Certainly,
the (later) hand-scales I've seen online seem quite a lot
lighter than the
VMs, so who knows? :-)
Also, perhaps different types of scale-user
would have used different types
of dish... OK, there may not be *that*
much more to find out here, but
you'll never know if a deep dish will lead
to a deep pan (pizza) until you
try. :-)
Cheers, .....Nick
Pelling.....
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