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Description: | This is a small, portable balance with its own wooden carrying case. This style of balance is called a dot'chin and was a common instrument in Asia, for weighing currency and medicine. It can measure a wide range of weights. They were seen, and commented on, by European travellers to that region as early as 1650. There is no indication whether a traveller brought this into the North East or whether it was made here. On loan from the Society of Antiquaries. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | work living in the North East | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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