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- OBJECT TYPE
- IMPERIAL/ASSAY
- DATE
- 1911
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0094.007
- MANUFACTURER
- OERTLING, L.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- London, England
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 7
- Total Parts
- 19
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- WOODEN BOXES WITH BRASS AND STEEL HARDWARE/ BRASS WEIGHTS/ ALUMINUM WEIGHTS/ VELVET LINED RECEPTACLES FOR SOME OF THE WEIGHTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- 1.7 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Metrology
- Category
- Mass/weight
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- OERTLING
- Country
- England
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- London
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- PROBABLY FROM LATE 19THC TO 1960S
- Canada
-
USED BY THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE "TRIAL OF THE PYX" WHO ANALYZED THE SILVER CONTENT OF SILVER DOLLARS AT THE CANADIAN MINT ONCE AYEAR TO ENSURE THAT A MINIMUM WEIGHT OF SILVER WAS BEING MAINTAINED. THE SCALES 970130 & 970131 WERE USED FOR THIS ANALYSIS. - Function
-
USED TO BALANCE SMALL QUANTITIES ON A BALANCE SCALE TO DETERMINE THE WEIGHT. CAN BALANCE.20 GRAINS TO 516 GRAINS SINGLY OR A TOTAL WEIGHT OF 1661.95 GRAINS. - Technical
-
ASSAY WEIGHTS ARE USED WITH ASSAY BALANCES TO DETERMINE THE PRECISE WEIGHT OF PRECIOUS METALS. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- STAMPED ON THE INSIDE TOP OF BOX FOR: .7-.8: 'L.OERTLING LONDON/ 129 GRN:/ 90 GRN:'./ STAMPED ON .7 WEIGHT: ‘129/ GRN:/ [CROWN]/ GR/ 1911/ [GATE]'
- Missing
- ONE 0.25 GRN WEIGHT
- Finish
- STAINED AND VARNISHED WOOD WITH WHITE PRINTING/ NAVY VELVET/ VARNISHED WEIGHT
- Decoration
- N/A
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OERTLING, L., Weight, 1911, Artifact no. 1997.0094, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1997.0094.007/
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