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Ten brass nested cup-weights,
six of typical late Czarist Russian design, with hollow dome-shaped lid, the hinge and locker attached to the side, the interior filled to the top with a series of stacked flat circular weights with a rim (five missing smallest weight), stamped with dates from 1862 to 1898 and various marks and stamps (indistinct) on the base, the largest --2in. (5.2cm.) high, the smallest --1½in. (3.8cm.) high; two dome-like Russian-style nested cup weights, of the type made in Nuremberg in the late 18th-Century, with the dome closed underneath and the hinges attached to the lid, with steep cup weights, one stamped A III, both missing two smallest weights, the largest--2½in. (6.4cm.) high; and a late 19th-Century one-arm type German 500g cup-weight, stamped D.R. (Deutsches Reich) (the second cup missing) --1¾in. (4.5cm.) high
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six of typical late Czarist Russian design, with hollow dome-shaped lid, the hinge and locker attached to the side, the interior filled to the top with a series of stacked flat circular weights with a rim (five missing smallest weight), stamped with dates from 1862 to 1898 and various marks and stamps (indistinct) on the base, the largest --2in. (5.2cm.) high, the smallest --1½in. (3.8cm.) high; two dome-like Russian-style nested cup weights, of the type made in Nuremberg in the late 18th-Century, with the dome closed underneath and the hinges attached to the lid, with steep cup weights, one stamped A III, both missing two smallest weights, the largest--2½in. (6.4cm.) high; and a late 19th-Century one-arm type German 500g cup-weight, stamped D.R. (Deutsches Reich) (the second cup missing) --1¾in. (4.5cm.) high
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