Antique W & T. Avery Ltd Scale

 Antique W & T. Avery Ltd Scale

Antique W & T. Avery Ltd Scale

W & T Avery Ltd. is a British manufacturer of weighing machines. The company was founded in the early 18th century and took the name W & T Avery in 1818.

 Antique W & T. Avery Ltd Scale

Unusual Egg Australian Scale

Unusual Egg scale from Australia

Unusual Egg scale from Australia

Jiffy Way Tin Egg Scale

Jiffy Way Tin Egg Scale

Jiffy Way Tin Egg Scale for grading and measuring eggs

Acme Egg Grading Scale

Acme Egg Grading Scale made in St. Paul Minnesota

Premier Egg Scale

Premier Egg Scale. Massey Collection

Premier Egg Scale to measure and grade egg sizes.

Salter's Spring Balance Scale

Salter's Spring Balance Scale

Made in England. Part of our scale collection.

SALTER HOUSEWARES itself began life in the late 1700S in the village of Bilston, England. At this time Richard Salter, a spring maker, began making 'pocket steelyards', a scale similar to the fisherman's scale of today.

By 1825 his nephew George had taken over the company, which became known as GEORGE SALTER & CO. and later established a large, well equipped manufacturing site in the town of West Bromwich.

The brass face reads:

Salter's Spring Balance Made in England
30 lb by 2 oz
Brass Scale

Antique Gurney & Ware Scale

Antique Gurney & Ware Scale

Well, another great find at Barrie Antiques Centre, Innisfil Street. Lorine and I spotted a balance scale with the original decorations and painting, plus the original brass pan and ceramic plate with "Gurney's & Ware, Hamilton" on it. The plate had split down the middle but considering the age of the scale that's not unexpected.

The scale had been assembled incorrectly, I guess by the dealer who had it for sale, but I knew I could fix that at home. Someone at one time had added lead shotgun pellets and old nuts in the well where you unscrew the brass plate (for weight) but you don't see that anyway.

Charles and Edward Gurney arrived in Hamilton, Ontario from Utica New York, in 1842 and became 2 of 3 partners in the Gurney and Carpenter Iron Foundry. Elijah Ware and Edwin Dalley started a commercial scale company in 1856 and in 1885 Dalley sold his share to the Gurney brothers. The company was renamed the Gurney Scale Company (G.S.C.)


...Read more about these early Hamilton industrial establishments