Inventory | Ethnography | Pesi di bilancia
- Common name
- Scale weights
- Material
- wood, brass
Description
The tool was used to determine the weight of products for sale. Composed of a wooden frame with weights of different sizes, operation was by balancing between the product and the weights. Made of wood and brass, it is a handcrafted object typical of the Como area in the 20th century.
Use
- Areas of use
- commercial and public service activities
- Specific use
- measuring instrument
- Craft
- shopkeeper
Preserved specimen
Within a wooden structure in the shape of a parallelepiped, eleven weights of different sizes are inserted (5 weights are missing)
Cataloging
- SIRBeC
- 7s020-00496
