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XXI.8 Box of weights
Maker: unknown
Date:19th cent.
Materials:brass; case: wood, cloth
Dimensions:386x280x225 mm
Current inventory:1076, 3133-3141
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Walnut box of weights lined with green cloth, containing 15 pear-shaped weights (pounds and ounces ) certified on public scales. Comes with three small brass boxes containing some square-shaped fractional weights for the submultiples of the weights in the main box. There are also two ebony cases with empty compartments.

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