An 18th-Century steel coin balance,

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An 18th-Century steel coin balance,
with brass pans, by Johannes Kirch, with ten (of thirteen), weights, in fruitwood box -- 4 7/8in. (12.4cm.) wide; and a coin balance, the lid of the box stamped GIH 1749 (Georg Jakob Himmler), containing a steel balance with circular and triangular brass pans, the box -- 5¾in. (14.6cm.) wide; a brass quadrant paper scale, by Carl Langenberg, Leipzig, graduated in grams per square metre, in leather wallet; a steel balance with brass pans and set of nesting weights in case -- 7¾in. (19.7cm.) wide; and an [?]Islamic balance with some weights, in brass decorated case -- 5½in. (14cm.) wide. (5)

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