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Description: | Balance comprising turned segmented wooden arm on bronze suspension fitting, small circular suspension loop at its top, with iron chains attached to two circular scales pans, and a paper identifying the device as"Ordinary hawker's balance. Bought at Ataba-el-Khadra Cairo from a date-seller 1/11/22. for P.T.12 These balances are valued according to the accuracy and delicacy of the balance. For a good one men will pay as much as P.T. 50. Some are very fine with the arm very elegantly and ornamentally turned in ebony" The middle sentence has been corrected after "valued according to the" in pencil to "beauty of the turning of the beam which is sometimes made of ebony". On the other side of the paper in pencil is the note "It is called the miyan beledi". | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=Modern Period; start=1900 | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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