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Title: Need help identifying these scales
Post by: Ashleigh on April 05, 2014, 02:54:09 pm

Hi all
Cleaning out my fathers shed and came across these salter scales,
Any body know what they were used for or if worth anything?
I can't find anything similar on interment to help
Thankyou

Title: Re: Need help identifying these scales
Post by: nera on April 05, 2014, 03:28:46 pm

Antique platform Scale,
I`ve seen similar scales-nowhere near as nice as yours on ebay
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-ANTIQUE-H-POOLEY-SON-VINTAGE-WEIGHING-PLATFORM-SCALES-/231026830248

Title: Re: Need help identifying these scales
Post by: nera on April 05, 2014, 03:31:21 pm

forgot to add, it looks like industrial scale to me,
used maybe in mills, post office, factory???

Title: Re: Need help identifying these scales
Post by: mart on April 05, 2014, 06:26:35 pm

It does indeed look like scales for use in a factory !! No telling what they were used for !!

Title: Re: Need help identifying these scales
Post by: cogar on April 06, 2014, 03:08:40 am

With the "lock" on the dial and the "backbrace" on the platform ..... my guess is a feed/grain mill ...... for weighing the feed/grain after it was bagged or when they purchased bagged grain.

Like, ya "lock" the dial, ...... throw several bags of grain on platform, ..... "unlock" the dial and record the weight.