Arm from an early Fairbanks platform scale designed to weigh items weighing up to 50 lbs.
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- Composition - Brass & iron
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- Condition - Missing sliding gauge barrel
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- Age - Late 1800s/early 1900s estimated. Similar in appearance to the one pictured on this c1884-97 postcard, being used to weigh PT Barnum's white elephant
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- Size - 4" high x 20" wide x 2" thick x 7 lbs
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