[h-cost] Re: History of measuring tools + seeking a replica set of scales

2006-06-29 Thread julian wilson
 
  david webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings all:
Some related info on everything you ever wanted to know about household 
items made of wood:

  MUCH SNIPPAGE

 The late Maurice Stevenson, who revised this book 
for its third edition, was a senior inspector of weights and measures and an 
enthusiastic collector of old weights and measures. Other Shire titles by 
this author are: Weights and Measures SNIP

   
  COMMENT
  Gentles of the List,
  While David Webb - [thanks for a most intersting and informative Posting, 
BTW, David] - is on the subject of historical weighing - can anyone recommend 
any Merchant/source for a set of medieval-looking small scales?  My Lady Alys 
Vitel would like to have a set sutiable for a late-15th C Apothecary/Herbalist.
  Something with a price tag that wouldn't call for me to take-out a second 
Mortgage to afford to buy the scales, would be nice?
   
  God's Blessings on you all this Feast of St. Cassius; - and until He calls us 
Home to Him for the Last Battle and The Judgement that shall follow..





  Yours in Service, 
  Matthew
  [Messire Matthew Baker, Governor  Castellan of Jersey, 1486-1497: 
  Motto  - Si vis pacem, para bellum (Trans:-if you wish for Peace, prepare 
for War) ]
  aka. - Julian Wilson,  - late-medieval Re-enactor; Herald, Historian,  
Master Artisan to 
The Companie of the Duke's Leopards, 
[the Island of old Jersey's only mediæval living-history Group] 
Meet us at   www.dukesleopards.org   
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Re: [h-cost] Re: History of measuring tools + seeking a replica set of scales

2006-06-29 Thread Bonnie Booker

Try http://www.preciousplunder.com. He does jewelry, but he has done
working scales for years. He says it is something any good viking
should have.  After all, our household is known as The House of
Shining Scales. Tell him I sent you and the price should be good.

 Something with a price tag that wouldn't call for me to take-out a
second Mortgage to afford to buy the scales, would be nice?

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Aspasia Moonwind
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