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Hearst Museum object titled Scale, accession number 9-59, described as Bamboo scale. One side of this comparative scale shows measurements of Japan. Holland, England, France and a fifth country. The Japanese scale is the longest of the five and its ten inches make the longer of the Japanese foot measures. The other side, which is metrically graded to 300 millimeters and in additon shows five other scales. Scale and slider.

Hearst Museum object titled Scale, accession number 9-60, described as Brass scale.

Hearst Museum object titled Scale, accession number 9-13112, described as balance; iron beam balance (European style) with 2 iron pans suspended from beam by chains; with beam 25.8 centimeters, diameter pans 17.5 centimeters.

Hearst Museum object titled Scale, accession number 9-11533, described as balance; two round shallow pans, each attached by brad-like pins to three link-chains suspending them from each end of the beam, a flat iron piece. from the center of the beam, the indicator extends downward between the shears. the shears are movable & are weighted by a ball wrapped in rag strip. Beam 42 cm length; pans - 22.5 cm diameter.

Hearst Museum object titled Scale, accession number 9-9272, described as Scale; two small circular brass plates suspended by cord from brass frame; center of frame has six lobe design; width 34 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Scale, accession number 9-12115, described as Balance; jeweller’s; iron handle and beam with a circular, bowl-like brass pan suspended by 3 iron chains from each end; formerly ysed by jewellers for weighing out small items. Often used with red beans, lal val, as a unit of measurement, or tola weights, now superceded by grams, the legal unit of measurement, the metric system. This specimen was sold by a Hindu dealer in Parsi metal goods after much persuasion, since its use is allegedly illegal, rendering possessors of old balances and weights subject to prosecution.

Hearst Museum object titled Scale, accession number 9-16326a-c, described as Scale (steelyard); a) beam: wood, brass inlaid calibrations, iron fittings copper sheathed, 67 cm. long. b) pan: galvanized iron, 25.5 cm. long, 22.5 cm. wide, 5 cm. deep. c) counterweight: cast iron, two Chinese ideograms, 4.75 cm. high, 5 cm. deep.