This small scale with its own traveling case was made specifically for someone to weigh small amounts of goods while traveling. It may have been used by a doctor or druggist to measure medicine, or by a trader dealing in other small quantities of material provided by a spice merchant, a jeweler, or a prospector.
Scales. ca. 1900. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1999-13-500/. Accessed on December 26, 2024.
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