Antique Scales Collection Online
Established and Maintained by ISASC
Scales, weights, and measures carry significant historic importance as well as contemporary relevance. The Antique Scales Collection Online seeks to link the scientific, aesthetic, and functional uses of the items in its collection to daily life through education, preservation, and research.
This digital collection features a portion of the ISASC Museum. The museum houses over 5,000 items.
Having grown up on farms, several of our volunteers felt a special connection to scales used to weigh eggs – so that is where we started our project.
But this is only the beginning. Many more images and descriptions will be added in the future.
We will be your most accessible and complete information source on antique scales—whether collector, researcher, dealer, or someone who is simply curious about this fascinating topic.
Enjoy your visit. Contact us with questions and feedback.
This collection is price computing scales—scales that indicate the price as well as the weight.
Scales used to weigh or grade the size of eggs: Usually chicken eggs, sometimes turkey eggs, and occasionally duck eggs or other eggs. Do you want to…
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