CMS catalogue description: 'Scales for weighing pearls. The beam is of brass, very slender and cylindrical; the handle much resembles those in use with us, being an upright open frame. Each end is flattened into a triangular wing, from which are pendant a small ring, to which are attached four long strings supporting the scales, which are made of thin brass, hemispherical. The inside embellished with concentric rings. The box containing the scales is formed of light-coloured wood, very clumsily made, somewhat resembling the Greek (omega) in shape, the circle being for the scales and the horizontal part below for the beam'. From the Museum of R.F. Seale, MRAS, FGS.'
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