The name Fairbanks is cast into it, there seems to be a curved frame, possibly to hold a bowl or something similar and a strange tippy bird foot-like base. Ideas?
It brings to mind the "Grian Test Weight Scales" that were at the local grain elevators that served farmers in the Midwest where I grew up. The ones from my time would have been made in the 1950s and 1960s, and the design of the pictured scale looks more like the style of the '20s or '30s, and maybe much earlier, to my uneducated eye. I googled for images of ones similar to to my childhood years and came up with nada. However, here's a pic of one that would be of a more recent manufacture date. https://www.hoffmanmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/SCL-720-S0.jpeg
A bushel of grain is a volume measurement, so it can vary in weight. And the grain a farmer sells can obtain a discount or premium in price, depending on what your bushels of grain weighed.
It brings to mind the "Grian Test Weight Scales" that were at the local grain elevators that served farmers in the Midwest where I grew up. The ones from my time would have been made in the 1950s and 1960s, and the design of the pictured scale looks more like the style of the '20s or '30s, and maybe much earlier, to my uneducated eye.
ReplyDeleteI googled for images of ones similar to to my childhood years and came up with nada. However, here's a pic of one that would be of a more recent manufacture date. https://www.hoffmanmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/SCL-720-S0.jpeg
A bushel of grain is a volume measurement, so it can vary in weight. And the grain a farmer sells can obtain a discount or premium in price, depending on what your bushels of grain weighed.