This set of Gold Standard Scales with weights is an extremely rare and important piece of early British Columbia history as it is the scale which apparently weighed every ounce of gold that came out of Barkerville, BC. The set of Gold Standard scales was made by Howard and Davis, Boston for the Hudson’s Bay Post and came from the museum at Barkerville.
Tthese scales were from the Hudson’s Bay Post there, written on the steel crossbar "Gold Standard Balance, Manufactured by Howard and Davis, Boston, Mass. Successors to B. Dearborn/Full Jeweled"
Benjamin Dearborn (1754–1838) was a printer and mechanical inventor in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Boston, Massachusetts in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His inventions include the gold standard balance,[1] spring scale,[2] grist mill, candlestick, ballot box, perspective drawing machine, letter-press, "musical board for the instruction of the blind," thermoscope, vibrating steelyard balance, and perpendicular lift.
Size: 32 ¾ h x 36 ½ w x 14 d
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