Scales Collection (page 3)

c. 1880s India - weighing spices or other dry goods
c.1880s India - man weighing spices or other dry goods with a set of scales

Christmas card in the form of weight scales -- Try Your Weight, Drop Penny in Slot. Date: circa 1890s

Fountain of Saint Peter, 1595. By Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann (15
Germany. Trier. Fountain of Saint Peter, 1595. By Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann (1545-1617)

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Selling salt
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Establishment. Selling salt. Miniature. Fol. 62v

Gothic Art. France. Paris. Notre Dame. Facade. the archangel
Gothic Art. France. Paris. Notre Dame. Sculptures decorating the portal of the Last Judgment. It was built in the 1220s-1230s. Facade

The Weighing Room at Hurst Park by John Lavery picturing famous jockeys of the day - from left, McLachlan, Steve Donoghue (in the scales), Bullock, Smirke, Weston, Beary, Pat Donoghue, R

Mermaid of Zennor wood carving, Zennor Church, Cornwall
A wood carving of a mermaid on the end of a pew in Zennor Church, near St Ives, Cornwall. She is known as the Mermaid of Zennor and is depicted with long flowing hair

Suffragette W. S. P. U Regalia Flag
A W.S.P.U flag or pennant in purple, white and green silk. At one end is a square additional section (24cm x 24cm) in cream silk with beautifully embroidered laurel wreath with purple ribbon bow at

French Revoluton / French Republic - Assignat note - 50 sols
French Revoluton / French Republic - Assignat note for 50 sols, series 369, France, issued on 23rd May, 1793. From 1789, the new revolutionary government of France tried to raise money by issuing

Taking advantage of the situation... Street Lad - " Do you want an Errand Boy?" Shopkeeper - " No." Street Lad - " Yus you do, yours as just been runned over." !!

Christmas card in the shape of kitchen scales, with a turkey on one side and a twenty pound weight on the other. Date: circa 1890s

Grotesque Fish Merchants - Algeria
Grotesque Fish Merchants, shouting their wares up to the houses - Algeria. Date: circa 1903

French Railway Alphabet - K for Kilogrammes (kilograms). 19th century

Two tabby kittens on bathroom scales
Unusual Friends - two tabby kittens on bathroom scales. 1950s

Law Courts building in Bahrain, Persian Gulf. Date: late 1940s

Cartoon, The Treasury -- a commentary on British politicians attempting to balance the books through cutbacks and taxes. late 18th century

Susi - with bathroom scales and Mum. 1950s

Susi - weighing a bone on scales. 1950s

Transporting cheeses - Alkmaar, the Netherlands
Transporting round Edam cheeses at Alkmaar - a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Alkmaar is famed for its traditional cheese market. circa 1910s

Weighing round Edam cheeses at Alkmaar - The Netherlands
Weighing round Edam cheeses at Alkmaar - a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Alkmaar is famed for its traditional cheese market. circa 1910s

French Happy Families - Butcher
French Happy Families - La Famille Dubifteck, Grandfather, Butcher. early 20th century

Scale with weights of platinum, 13th century
2. Reproduction of a miniature depicting the use of a scale for weighing silver. 3-5. Remains of a scale with weights of platinum, 13th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Caricature of Squire Bancroft and Edgar Bruce
Caricature of Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926) and Edgar Bruce (1845?-1901), both actor-managers. Bancroft is portrayed as Shylock wanting his pound of flesh

Caricature of Sir Henry Irving as Shylock
Caricature of the English actor and actor-manager Sir Henry Irving as Shylock in Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice. circa 1879

Woman weighing fruit on scales in a shop. Date: 1970s

Oatmeal on Scales
Oatmeal is a valuable addition to your everyday diet. It may be used in place of a proportion of the flour in most of your favourite recipies, scones, pastry etc. Date: 1940s

Various Snake Species
1) Boa Constrictor (family Boidae) 2) Adder ( Common Viper Vipera berus) 3) Banded Rock Rattlesnake (Crotalus lepidus lepidus) Date: circa 1890

Girl Weighs Herself
A girl in a towel stands on tiptoe in an attempt to weigh as little as possible on her bathroom weighing scales. Date: 1960s

Disraeli / Grocer / Shop
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Dizzy as Our Grocer, reassuring Mrs Britannia that Derby, Disraeli & Co can be trusted to give good value for money Date: 22 February 1868

Macklin / Shylock / 1775
CHARLES MACKLIN as SHYLOCK in Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice Act IV Scene I Date: 1697 - 1797

International Law - The Better Way by Thomas Nast in Harpers Weekly, 14th November 1874. A boat called The Arbitrator carrying the flag of truce lands in Geneva

Gold bricks on display, Lead, South Dakota, USA
Gold bricks on display at Lead, South Dakota, USA. The large Homestake Gold Mine was discovered in 1876. The gold bricks seen here were worth $125, 000 at the time

Fossil fern, Nothosaurus tooth and vertebra, Dracorex tooth, and fossil fish scales.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A

Butterfly wing, showing structure, skeleton, scales.. Butterfly wing, showing structure, skeleton, scales and microscopic detail

Human finger, skin, blood, serum and salt crystals.. Human finger 1, magnified 2, epidermis 3, magnified 4, scales 5, magnified skin 6, and human blood 7, serum 8

Why Englands Food is Safe, WW1
Why Englands Food is Safe, showing how the majority of food supplies come from countries who are not on the side of the enemy during the First World War. Date: 1914

Paris, France - Bastille, Prieurs proposed monument. Date: 1881

Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News cover - Goodwood
Front cover of the Goodwood Number of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News featuring a jockey in the weighing room prior to a race. Date: 1928

Street scene in Scottish Highlands
Street scene in the Scottish Highlands, with a little girl sitting on a stone step. A stone carving of a weight scale carries the inscription: God Bless The Just. Date: circa 1920s

Romania - Grain seller and Fruit seller Date: 1906

Maidenhead, Berkshire - The Old Toll Gate. Date: circa 1903

Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering silkworms from egg paper
Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering the silkworms from the egg paper using a delicate feather brush. Date: circa 1909

Japan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - The Automatic Balances. Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Jewish Fruit Sellers Date: circa 1910s

WW2 - The Scales of Victory - Oil and Steel Output compared between the Free Labour of the British Commonwealth and the USA and the Slave Labour of Germany and her subject nations

Russian Street Lock Seller and Locksmith, his wares hanging across his chest. Date: circa 1901

Canada - Transporting a load of fancy poulty, the size of which is certainly not paltry! Date: 1904

Kenyan boy scaling a tree trunk on the hunt for honey Date: 1930s

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