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[Weights and Scales]. Reference Works on Weights, Scales and Metrology. Includes: Sheppard and Musham's 1923 Money Scales and Weights; Withers's British Coin-Weights; Darier's 1807 Tableau du Titre, Poids et Valeur..; the International Society of Antique Scale Collectors' Troemner Scales, Balances and Weights; Crawforth's Handbook of Old Weighing Instruments; a draft of Mallis's Proposed Standard Designation for Coin Weights, Volume I; the International Society of Antique Scale Collectors' A Retrospective of Fairbanks Scale Catalogs; Barker's two-volume Pictorial History of American Scales, 1850-1950; the British Museum's Grains and Grammes: A Table of Equivalents for the Use of Numismatists; and Striegel's Residual Stresses in Numismatics. Generally very good or better, some with accompanying correspondence. Estimate $200. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society.
Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot16060 (realized $74).
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