General Information

Serial #

26846 (.1)

Part Number

1

Total Parts

3

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

CASES FRENCH IVORY/ ALUMINUM WEIGHTS/ ALUMINUM AND GERMAN SILVER WEIGHTS (NB: NICKEL OR GERMAN SILVER IS AN ALLOY OF COPPER, NICKEL & ZINC; IT CONTAINS NO SILVER) Cases: Cellulose Nitrate

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

N/A

Width

6.2 cm

Height

1.2 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

FROM THE 1910S TO THE 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 A YEAR TO DETERMINE THAT A MINUMUM WEIGHT OF SILVER WAS BEING MAINTAINED. [SEE PHOTOS IN S.I. FILE FOR 970094]./ USED WITH BALANCES 970130 & 970131 FOR THE "TRIAL".

Function

USED TO BALANCE SMALL QUANTITIES ON A BALANCE SCALE TO DETERMINE WEIGHT.

Technical

ASSAY WEIGHTS ARE USED WITH ASSAY BALANCES TO DETERMINE THE PRECISEWEIGHT OF PRECIOUS METALS.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

.1 PRINTED ON CASE LID IN CURSIVE: 'Assay Weights/ 1000 = 1 Gramme/ L. Oertling, London'/ STAMPED ON WEIGHTS: '1000' '500' '200' '100' [2] '50' '20' '10'[2] '5' '2' [2] '1'/ STAMPED ON BOTTOM: '26846'/ SCRATCHED ON BOTTOM: '707/ H'/.2 PRINTED ON LID: '1002/ m'grm'/ STAMPED ON WEIGHT: '1002/ M.G.'/.3 PRINTED ON LID: '1255/ m'grm'/ STAMPED ON WEIGHT: '1255/ M.G.'

Missing

N/A

Finish

.1 CASE BONE COLOUR WITH BLACK PRINTING/.2 &.3 CASES WHITE WITH BLACK PRINTING/ WEIGHTS ALL SHINY METAL

Decoration

N/A