A George I cased set of cut steel and brass portable coin scales Timothy Roberts, London, circa 1725 With finely turned and filed polished steel beam fitted with central knife-edge pivot incorporating vertical pointer within arched armature to centre and pivot boxes over brass pans suspended via three cotton lines to each end, in original green velvet-lined pocket case with a selection of various calibrated weights and applied with trade label to lid inscribed T. Roberts, IN, Bartholomew Lane, near the, Royal Exchange, London, Maketh & Selleth all Sorts, of Scales, Weights & Steelyards beside a table entitled The Standard, Weight of the following Coins, the case 14.5cm (5.75ins) wide. Timothy Roberts is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1850 as apprenticed to William Taylor in 1695/6 and gaining his freedom of the Guild of Blacksmiths in 1695/6. He worked from Bartholomew Lane, London from 1701 taking his son of the same name into partnership in 1731 until his death in 1744. Condition report disclaimer
A George I cased set of cut steel and brass portable coin scales Timothy Roberts, London, circa 1725 With finely turned and filed polished steel beam fitted with central knife-edge pivot incorporating vertical pointer within arched armature to centre and pivot boxes over brass pans suspended via three cotton lines to each end, in original green velvet-lined pocket case with a selection of various calibrated weights and applied with trade label to lid inscribed T. Roberts, IN, Bartholomew Lane, near the, Royal Exchange, London, Maketh & Selleth all Sorts, of Scales, Weights & Steelyards beside a table entitled The Standard, Weight of the following Coins, the case 14.5cm (5.75ins) wide. Timothy Roberts is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1850 as apprenticed to William Taylor in 1695/6 and gaining his freedom of the Guild of Blacksmiths in 1695/6. He worked from Bartholomew Lane, London from 1701 taking his son of the same name into partnership in 1731 until his death in 1744. Condition report disclaimer
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