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Hello,
I recently picked up an old scale (1870?) It looks like it may have been used to check weight of nails or something of the sort, it says "Avery Patent" on the side and has the numbers 182 at the top, it is very pitted and looks very old but I cannot seem to find any information on it, can you help? Thanks.
Hi George,
I try to tell everyone in the what I know about, and scales is not one I know about. I get a pile of scale questions and I am just not the guy to ask. But, if you want to take the time to e-mail me a photo of it, if I can find any information I let you know, I'll try to get you some information, but scales are a hard item and there tons of them. My e-mail address is jackpot7@ix.netcom.com Please don't give me bad feed back for answering you and trying to help, I offered to help on a scale question once before and got a bad feedback for my trouble, so I was just going to reject any and all scale questions from then on, but I would like to try to help you if I can.
Thank You
Rodger
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