Egg Scales
Subject
Weighing - Agriculture
Description
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 know more? Click Here
Collection Items
White Egg Grader with Flip Weights
This scale is made to grade* chicken eggs, and it is a rare scale.
The scale is made of cast iron. On one end of the beam is an egg cradle made of cast aluminum that pivots to accept an egg easily. The egg cradle has a lead weight on the bottom to…
Hart Tru-Way Egg Scale Wooden base, Los Angeles
H. W. Hart Manufacturing Co. made two models of their Hart Tru-Way Egg Scale. This is an example of the first model that featured a metal scale on a wooden base with attached label.
The quite faded manufacturer's label on this example indicates…
Royal Egg Grader, 23 oz
This Royal egg grader has a fixed value of 23 ounces per dozen. The scale is made of tin. Models for other weights, usually 22 or 24 ounces per dozen, are also found. They were manufactured for a bakery or flour mill as a giveaway item.
Pressed on…
ABC Egg Scale Four holes, metal base
These scales have either four (this example) or five holes in one end of the beam. A single egg is placed into one of the holes. The scale acts as a rocker, tipping if the egg exceeds the weight inscribed beside the hole in which the egg has been…
Brower Egg Scale No label
This unnamed, unlabeled scale is an early Brower scale design. It has an upright post to hold the half-roberval and pendulum mechanism.
The scale is green-painted steel and aluminum. The chart is graduated 18 to 30 ounces per dozen and 1½–2½ ounces…
Farm Master Egg Scale By Jiffy-Way, green
This "Farm Master" scale was a private label made by Jiffy-Way. It is designed to weigh and grade chicken eggs from small to extra large. A decal shows normal graduation of 18–30 oz (ounces) per dozen and 1½–2½ oz each egg with a rainbow of size…
Jiffy-Way Egg Scale Minneapolis, green
This is the first known version to have a label showing the city of manufacture as well as having a registered trademark.
The label reads: “Jiffy-Way" / PRODUCTS, INC. / T.M. REG. PAT. OFF. / Minneapolis, Minn. / WORLD'S LARGEST MFG'S OF EGG…
Jiffy-Way Egg Scale Owatonna, green
This example was made after 1953, the year the counterweight was changed to a steel cylinder with an adjustment screw to ensure accuracy (see photo of back). It was produced for several decades. In 1948, Jiffy-Way was sold to its second owner, C. C.…
David Bradley Egg Scale (Sears) By Jiffy-Way, green
The decal reads: DAVID BRADLEY / SEARS, ROEBUCK & COMPANY / db. “db” was the David Bradley logo for small agricultural equipment sold by Sears during the 1950s and ’60s; although the brand goes back to the early 1900s. In addition to Sears,…
Eltex, Kwikway Egg Scale
This scale is made to weigh chicken eggs. It has a black crinkle-painted cylinder that holds a spring and half-roberval scale sitting on a metal base.
The egg cup sits on top of a support rod. The bow front chart is graduated 0–4 ozs (ounces)…
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