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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Circa 1816 portable Scale for Gold and Silver

« on: May 02, 2013, 04:02:13 pm »

I had a set like this in the early 70,s....but they were,nt for weighing gold....more like for M.A.D,s..especially the smoking kind....but they were,nt called gold weighing scales...the were Apothecary...see link,....saw some on ebay for around £150...and on AUS for 2/300AUS $$

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=apothecary+scales&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=wdmCUYrKDvK00QXsroCQAw&sqi=2&ved=0CDoQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=624

Those are different type, this one is same type of scale as this Gold Coin scale from 1600s http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g187337-d243323-i22722601-Money_Museum_Geldmuseum_der_Deutschen_Bundesbank-Frankfurt_Hesse.html

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Circa 1816 portable Scale for Gold and Silver

« on: May 02, 2013, 03:55:18 pm »

Here is the picture of top left where with the name of owner, Felice was his name, can't read the surname thou...

The weights are for gold coins, the measures on them are for golden coins of that age, for example Luigi is Louis d'or french gold coin, appereantly that was the measure for gold they used back then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_d%27or

What do you think is written there?

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Antique Questions Forum / Circa 1816 portable Scale for Gold and Silver

« on: May 02, 2013, 02:42:08 pm »

Im unsure about the value for this type of scales, produced by Stamperia Reale di Torino(Royal Printing Torino). It has a price list of gold and silver for Italian regions and cities(Piedmont, Genoa,  Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome and Tuscany)  and some foreign countries(Spain, France and Portugal).

My aunt recieved it from a Torino banker as wedding present long ago.
 
The weights are made of brass.






Anyone have any idea about the estimated value?