MB 49 POSTAL AUCTION - SIMMONS GALLERY 11 February 2010

535.   

Scales - folding

Folding Guinea scale with a single turn counterweight, clean label of W Mountford ( Birmingham ), Mahogany box   139x24 mm. made about 1780-90. Scarce maker

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120

180

536.   

Spyers

Folding Guinea scale with a single turn counterweight, clean label of James Spyers, No 121 Cheapside and No 8 Bell Alley, Lombard St. (London)  SPYERS stamped on the counterweight , Mahogany box  139x24mm. made about 1780-90. Spyers was a Cutler – Opening button missing although mechanism complete

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125

200

537.   

Sovereign Rockers -

ISS  - Crown  on counterweight,  pans cut away, horn terminals. The base is countermarked crown SOVEREIGN WARRANTED  ISS– ISS is not recorded although IS =  John Simmons of Birmingham

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45

90

538.   

SIMMONS

Crown on counterweight,  SIMMONS on beam, pans cut away, horn terminals. The base is ctm. crown SOVEREIGN WARRANTED (error on paper catalogue - no WT)

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35

70

539.   

SMITH

Crown on counterweight, SMITH  on beam, pans cut away, horn terminals. The base is lobed ctm.  SOVEREIGN WARRANTED –

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35

70

540.   

WS

Crown on counterweight, WS on beam, pans cut away, horn terminals. The base is ctm. crown SOVEREIGN WARRANTED – William Simmonds London

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35

70

541.   

WT

Crown on counterweight, WT on beam, pans cut away, horn terminals. The base is ctm. crown SOVEREIGN WARRANTED – WT= William Tabberer

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35

70

542.   

Crown

Crown on counterweight, pans round, horn terminals. The base is rectangular ctm. crown IMPROVED PATENT WARRANTED

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35

70

543.   

Coin Tester

THE REALM COUNTERFEIT COIN DETECTOR The Speciality Manufg. Co Manchester, wooden base with 4 fixing holes, a label printed black on white and a metal piece with notches to measure the thickness of silver coins 6d to 2/6 – soft metals can be tested as well.94x37.5mm.

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30

50

544.   

Ancient

Babylonian,  Haematite weight  in the form of a duck  looking backwards  48x28x29.5mm. 71.9gm. -10 shekel = very large for a haematite weight

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150

350

545.   

Babylonian,  Haematite weight  in the form of a duck  looking backwards  15.6x7x8.5mm. 1.57gm.

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65

100

546.   

Babylonian,  Haematite weight  in the form of a duck  looking backwards  12x7x7mm. 0.94gm.

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50

80

547.   

Babylonian,  Haematite weight  in the form of a duck  looking backwards  12x6x6mm.  0.79mm.

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50

80

548.   

Babylonian,  Bronze weight in the form of a seated ram, 38x23x 38mm. 83gm. (10 shekel) This is a rather larger weight than normal for this type of bronze zoomorphic weight.  Said to have been found in Israel   -c. 500 BC, Achaemenid Greek style

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325

500

549.   

Judean, white marble domed weight with an inscribed design  19.3x14.4mm. 11.72gm. Shekel

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45

90

550.   

Judean, buff marble domed weight 18.4x15.3mm. 7.90gm. ¾  Shekel

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25

40

551.   

Judean, reddish limestone domed weight 13.9x12mm. 2.90gm. ¼  Shekel

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25

40

552.   

Judean, reddish limestone domed weight ? Hebrew letter inscribed on top 135.3x10.1mm. 3.11gm. ¼  Shekel

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30

60

553.   

Greek,  Bronze square weight  AE  T  rev, blank 40mm. 108gm.

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200

400

554.   

Roman, Bronze cup weight, 4 Uncia, side inscribed EXA :: CAS  53.1mm. x20.2mm. 102.58gm. very rare

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300

500

555.   

Books

English Weights by Norman Biggs – 1992 80 pages well illustrated survey of English weights

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7

14

556.   

Scales and Balances by J T Graham – Shire Album 55, 3^rd edition 1993  - 32 pages – Useful introduction

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3

6

557.   

European Coin weights for English Coins by Gerard Houben 1977 – 26 pages – a standard work pre Withers

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5

10

558.   

Apothecaries Weights by Norman Biggs 1994 36 pages, A standard work in English on apothecary weights

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4

8

559.   

I Pesi Monetari Di Monete Milanesi by Fernando Mazza 1982 – Standard work on Italian coin weights for Milan – 88 pages +33 plates

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20

40

560.   

I Pesi Monetari Di Monete Non Italiani by Fernando Mazza 1982 – Standard work on Italian-made coin weights for foreign coins – 78 pages +31 plates

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20

40