• Title
  Item 1364a: Assay weights, before 1952 / L. Oertling, manufacturer
• Call number
  SAFE/DR 193
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  before 1952
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  890639
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  assaying equipment - platinum[?] weights in ivory box - 6.3 cm diameter x 1.5 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  DN/M 1364a (located at call no. SAFE/DR 193)
  
  Circular box with screw on lid. Printing on lid reads: 'Assay Weights L. Oertling, London'. Base of box bears the number '16789'. Lid of box unable to be unscrewed.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment - Due to security reasons this collection is not available for browsing
• Copying Conditions
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010.
  Numismatic and Philatelic Lists
• General note
  
  Britain. Miscellaneous.
  Assay Weights. Ivory box, platinum weights.
  DN/M 1364a; Condition Very Fine; Ivory box, round with screw on lid, diameter 64mm, recesses for eight weights, on lid, Assay Weights, L Oertling, London, on base, 16789; Weights, 1000, 500, 250, 83.33 [Three Specimens], five wire riders. DR 193.
• Date note
  
  Dated from the year of Sir William Dixson's death
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Oertling, L. Ltd.
  
• Topic
  weights and measures
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE15801185

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