Antique Scale 1900's, very rare, restored very beautiful, all original.
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Early 1900's All original Cast Iron, Marble and Brass Scale with a Beautiful Restore, I believe this is a even earlier model Landers, Frary and clark scale based on some minor research, very unique scale operates with a spring, leading scale maker was Toledo and they quit using ( which all other co. did also), springs in the early 1900's. Also found one similar to this and it had a paper decal showing maker where the dial is on mine, which would help explain why no paper was on this one, the inside shows the age from the simplicty of it and how easy it was to mass produce, Landers, Frary and clark started producing scale after clark joined them in 1862 so very hard to pin point the age but i would say anywhere between 1862-1908 when companys switched away from springs. The restore consist of sandblasting old paint, several different coats, and then powder coating in a high gloss black paint, the gold trimming was all hand painted with couple coats of clear coat, the brass has been polished, waiting for another 100 yrs of re-building the patina, this is fully functional scale, calibrated and smooth, little nut under base to fine tune calibration, marble plate has a minor corner defect which you can see in the pics. considering the age i'm always shocked when something that fragile is still in great condition, this makes a fantastic
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