The seller's description - Surrender Dorothy. Unexpected Vintage Finds Fresh Every Day.
Scale 22 1/2" long. Three 3 1/2" hooks plus one for hanging. Light surface rust.
Condition / Good. Works great. This handsome must-have vintage farm tool is in good working order and has been pre-used and pre-loved, Some wear to the finish. It's all ready to go to work again in your own shop...
NOTE - the scale can be hung two ways. The light weight mode has a long lever arm to the hooks holding an item being weighed. This range is 5 - 26 pounds. The heavy weight mode has a shorter arm to the load and has a range of 25 - 130 pounds.
The scale and some other items that arrived today. I will post the coins and 2.5 Kg bronze currency bar later.
I bought this partial Roman Steelyard Scale last weekend. I hope it arrives soon. I want to look at the two scales side by side.
The steelyard weight above is from the Getty Museum. The one on my scale is not so fancy.
I am building a stand for my scale. You can see the two ranges (sides) below by looking at how far the weight is from the hanger for the same weight. When I looked at the vendor's pictures, I wondered why there were so many hooks. There are two hanging hooks, on opposite "sides".
The gallon and a half of water is below the minimum weight mark on the high range scale, above. I could not move the weight close enough to the center to balance (level) the bar.
The gallon and a half of water on the low range scale, above, sets the weight near the middle of the balance bar.
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