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A set of Victorian gilt brass postal scales mounted on a horse's hoof
with foliate openwork frame, one circular and one rectangular weight platform, the hoof inscribed Pinwire Age 17 -DIED- 21 SEPT. 1896 on a brass base; and a smaller gilt metal mounted hoof adapted as an ink well and inscribed PRINCE AGED 36 1835, a coin set into the cover dated 1817. (2)
with foliate openwork frame, one circular and one rectangular weight platform, the hoof inscribed Pinwire Age 17 -DIED- 21 SEPT. 1896 on a brass base; and a smaller gilt metal mounted hoof adapted as an ink well and inscribed PRINCE AGED 36 1835, a coin set into the cover dated 1817. (2)