Help identifying scale

[Troy]

Came across this while looking at ideas up for auction. Looked around but could not find one that looked alike. Wondering if of you have better luck.

[KC]

Can you please post some close ups and give more detail.  Thanks!

[Troy]

It's the only picture provided by the auction sadly.

[KC]

Truly sad.  Sorry, I can't see it well enough to help out! 

[mart]

Where is the auction ??  Can you post a link to it ??

[jacon4]

It looks to me like an old hardware store scale that was used to weigh nails

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/7421495_lot-of-two-hardware-store-nail-and-seed-scales

[ghopper1924]

Yup. A point for Jacon.

[jacon4]

LOL, i have used these scales before back in the day before big box hardware stores, those were the days!

[jacon4]

It wasn't to long ago that these scales were used for many products, nails, seeds, candy, bla bla bla, it was the honor system. You weighed up your stuff, poured into a brown bag sitting next to product, took it to front of store and said, 5 lbs of this, that or the other thing!

[mart]

I  can remember nails in barrels and having to weigh them,,,But,,,I am not enough of a senior to remember scales like that !!   

[jacon4]

LOL, Are you calling me old? DON'T make me hit that SMITE button!  Well, the old timey hardware stores i used to go to had wood floors, product piled to the rafters and, some old guy that knew EXACTLY where every item was located. Good thing too because if he didn't, you would NEVER find the item you were looking for.

Many of these stores were started in the 19th century and passed from one generation to the next. It was like stepping back in time when shopping this type of hardware store. Most are gone now but, almost every major town on the east coast has at least one that survived, they changed (they had to) to industrial type hardware that you can't get at the big box stores.

[cogar]

Well, the old timey hardware stores i used to go to had wood floors, product piled to the rafters and, some old guy that knew EXACTLY where every item was located,

Right you are, Jacon4, and many of those stores survived until the 1980/90’s.

In the 1970’s, my favorite hardware store was located in downtown Utica, NY., Doyle Hardware was a 4-story building, situate on a city block parcel …… and just like you said, ….. staffed with old guys n’ gals that knew EXACTLY where every item was located.

I was into re-conditioning old cast iron cook and heating stoves and needed a couple replacement stove-top burner lids. So off to the hardware store I went. And an old grey haired clerk said “come on” …. and down to the basement and far back in a corner of the building were several shelves of “replacement” cast iron stove parts for several different “brand” names. 

Another time I was escorted up to the 4th floor to find the item I wanted.



Read more @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/29574758@N00/14408122034

[mart]

LOL !!  Would never do that Jacon4 !!  If I remember correctly you and I are about the same age !! 
We still have a hardware store like that but without the wood floors !!  They upgraded back in the 80`s to a new building !!  But the store is still the same !! I can remember when they were located on the square with the wood floors and no matter what you looked for,,they had it !!  From galvanized wash tubs and buckets to lawn mowers,, the kind you had to push across the lawn !!  Any screw, nut or bolt you want just tell the ladies at the desk,,they know exactly where it is !!

[jacon4]

Just got back from Little hardware this afternoon, getting product that big box stores don't carry, in biz since 1922. Though they still have retail sales , i would guess that 70-80% of sales at these stores are now wholesale with a large traveling sales staff. Still has the old timey feel though when you enter store and VERY knowledgeable retail staff. I used these type of stores A LOT when i was doing large commercial construction projects out in the boonies where material was just NOT going to happen. Call Little, place order, next day delivery by fedex or UPS and BAM! they made it happen.

Reaches for my smite stick.............. ..WACK WACK WACK!

[ghopper1924]

Well, the old timey hardware stores i used to go to had wood floors, product piled to the rafters and, some old guy that knew EXACTLY where every item was located,

Right you are, Jacon4, and many of those stores survived until the 1980/90’s.

In the 1970’s, my favorite hardware store was located in downtown Utica, NY., Doyle Hardware was a 4-story building, situate on a city block parcel …… and just like you said, ….. staffed with old guys n’ gals that knew EXACTLY where every item was located.

I was into re-conditioning old cast iron cook and heating stoves and needed a couple replacement stove-top burner lids. So off to the hardware store I went. And an old grey haired clerk said “come on” …. and down to the basement and far back in a corner of the building were several shelves of “replacement” cast iron stove parts for several different “brand” names. 

Another time I was escorted up to the 4th floor to find the item I wanted.



Read more @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/29574758@N00/14408122034

And a handsome building to boot!