Scales Collection (page 5)

Auxiliary London firewomen under catering instruction
London regular and AFS firefighters spent many hours, sometimes days, at incidents during the Blitz, and they needed refreshments

Delivery of the mail at Rand Airport - Johannesburg
Card issued for the Empire Exhibition - Johannesburg, South Africa. The airmail section of the General Post Office in Johannesburg

Japanese scales. Drawing shows a balance with a tray at each end suspended from a frame on a box containing a drawer. Date 1878?

Woman weighing love and a butterfly on scales
Love is the Lightest. Woman weighing love and a butterfly on scales. Date: 1847

Roadside Butter Market in Ireland Date: 1905

International Stores, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Interior view of The International Stores at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, showing biscuit containers (Mitre Biscuits) in front of the counter, and stacks of tins and packets on shelves behind. 1963

Fish & Chip shop, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Behind the counter view of Blooms Fish & Chip shop at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. circa 1966

Weight Loss Formula - Mexicain Tea
To lose weight without compromising health - The Mexicain Tea of Doctor Jawas is required. The product is 100% vegetable and available at all Pharmacies. The box costs 9 Francs 50.... 1928

Java - A goldsmith at work Date: circa 1910s

Israel - Local millers of Corn
Local millers of Corn working with hand-powered rotary querns in Jerusalem, Israel - at this period under Ottoman control Date: circa 1903

Weighing Baby
A nurse weighing a baby in a wicker basket on a set of weighing scales. Date: 1930s

Tabriz, Iran - Fruit Seller
A Beautiful early photographic picture postcard showing a Fruit Seller. Rather bizarrely there is a partial view of a chap on a ladder emerging into the top-right hand corner of the shot - what he is

Title page of a music book, 1517.A woman supervises an ensemble of musicians. Date: 1517

Sennhutte - Switzerland - A Cheese Factory Date: circa 1910s

Sweetmeat Seller - India Date: circa 1904

Canada - Typical Mining Scene
British Columbia, Canada - Typical Mining Scene showing two prospectors blowing black sand from placer gold. The word placer refers to the alluvial deposits in modern or ancient stream beds

Friendly Village Shop
A friendly village shop in Colebourne, a village in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England. Date: 1953

Exchequer / 12th Century
Officers receiving & weighing coin at the Exchequer. Date: 1130 - 1174

Justice with Scales
Justice holds the scales... Date: 17th century

Returning medicine bottle at the Grocers Shop
An elderly gentleman Mr W. Hitchman delivers his bottle of medicine for collection and replacement at his local Grocers Shop

Weighing cotton, India
Weighing cotton at Bombay for the English Market. A scribe with a parasol look on from above and makes notes

Music cover for Wavering Sea Waltzes by J [Isabella] Scales. The words of the song are from the Swedish of Baroness Barnekow, translated by Margaret Elenora Tupper

Indian Goldsmiths at work

Sri Lanka - Picking and weighing tea
Picking and weighing Green Tea in Sri Lanka

Laos - Sacks of cardamom being weighed. A very superior French overseer takes down the details in a jotter

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sarajevo - Market traders weighing large sacks of grain in the main Sarajevo Market

Cairo, Egypt - Sweet seller
A sweet seller in Cairo, Egypt. He uses a small set of hand scales to measure out a quantity of some delectable confectionary

Loading up a camel - Algeria. There is a set of scales (and administration desk) in the background to make sure the weight of the goods is correctly recorded prior to departure

Elderly date seller - Constantinople
An elderly date seller - Constantinople, carrying a fine set of metal scales. He also carries a large wicker basket on his back

Tunisian grocer
A Tunisian Grocer standing in his open-fronted shop with jars of olives, bowls of houmous, dried peppers and a fine set of metal scales hanging over the counter

Seller of Quince, Constantinople, Turkey

Sponge, nuts and fig Sellers - turkey
Itinerant street vendors of Sponges, Figs and Nuts in Constantinople, Turkey

Baking Flatbreads at Elisabetpol, Azerbaijan
Baking Flatbreads at Gjandzja (Elisabetpol), Western Azerbaijan

Weighing Scales in Use
A person stands on weighing scales with their loafers placed to the side. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Spice Seller - Mandu, Madhya Pradesh
A spice seller near Mandu, Madhya Pradesh Province, India. The trader sells a variety of dried and ground spices from baskets and tin cans, weighing the quanities on a fine pair of brass hand scales

Pistachio nut seller - Izmir, Turkey
A Pistachio nut seller from Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Date Sellers - Marrakesh, Morocco
A stall selling dates - Marrakesh, Morocco. The trader sits halfway up the immense pile of the dried fruit, which he can weigh on the suspended scales alongside his perch

The Bakers Shop. A young girl with her shopping basket selects a loaf at the Bakers

Lear / Nonsense / Sparta
There was an Old Person of Sparta, who had twenty-one sons and one darter ; He fed them on snails, and weighed them in scales, that wonderful Person of Sparta

Lear / Nonsense / Wales
There was a Young Lady of Wales, who caught a large fish without scales; When she lifted her hook, she exclaimed, Only look! that ecstatic Young Lady of Wales

Zodiac Tile / Libra
Hand painted Illustration on an original glazed clay tile, possibly used as a floor tile, approx 25cm x 25cm

Tangiers Date Seller, Morocco
Moroccan Date Seller in Tangiers, sits at his stall with his head protected against the midday sun. A wide-brimmed straw hat (sombrero-style) sits under the stall

A hospice for sick children
A group of nurses weigh the sickly children at a French hospice

The solution to the Turkish Question
French cartoon - the solution to the Turkish Question. A huge fist falls on the Sultans head

The Weighing Office at the Bank of England. Bates Scales fo
In June 1842 a proclamation was issued announcing that a large prportion of the gold coinage in Britain had become worn and devalued and was below its prescribed weight of five penny weights

Tomczyk Demonstrates Pk
Stanislawa Tomczyk - Polish medium - demonstrates PK whilst under hypnosis to Ochorowicz in Poland by raising ojects, in this case one side of a set of scales

Fruit and Veg Stall
A rather serious transaction taking place on the fruit and vegetable stall at Knaresborough Market, Yorkshire, England, where 6d buys 3lbs of onions!

Grocers shop by Percy Macquoid
Engraving to accompany a story in the Graphic ( Madame Leroux ), showing a typical interior of a grocers shop during the late 19th century

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