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XXI.5 Box of weights
Maker: unknown
Date:18th cent.
Materials:bronze
Dimensions:45x27 mm
Current inventory:3657
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Elegant box for weights. The lid has a latch system and a carrying handle at the center. The box, now empty, carries an inscription that is only partly legible, alongside a mark. Vase-shaped boxes of weights of this type were diffused from the Middle Ages onward, particularly in France.

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