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<p>[QUOTE="Graveymaster, post: 496214, member: 9845"]Hi everyone. Happy to be a member of the forum!</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought this balance on ebay a few years ago, just because I thought it was beautiful and cool. The seller described it as a late 1890s balance, made of Honduran mahogany and brass. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a couple of questions:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. I have always wondered whether it was made for an apothecary (pharmacist) or a laboratory. Does anybody know?</p><p><br /></p><p>2. After you put things on each side of the balance, you press the little lever at the bottom of the brass post, and it lifts the pans. But no matter how perfectly I try to get things to balance evenly on each side, one side of the balance always drops down. In other words, I cannot get the pans to balance perfectly in mid-air. Is that how this is supposed to operate? Or are the pans supposed to balance perfectly in mid-air?</p><p><br /></p><p>I would appreciate any and all information about this piece!!</p><p><br /></p><p>--Graveymaster[ATTACH=full]163656[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Graveymaster, post: 496214, member: 9845"]Hi everyone. Happy to be a member of the forum! I bought this balance on ebay a few years ago, just because I thought it was beautiful and cool. The seller described it as a late 1890s balance, made of Honduran mahogany and brass. I have a couple of questions: 1. I have always wondered whether it was made for an apothecary (pharmacist) or a laboratory. Does anybody know? 2. After you put things on each side of the balance, you press the little lever at the bottom of the brass post, and it lifts the pans. But no matter how perfectly I try to get things to balance evenly on each side, one side of the balance always drops down. In other words, I cannot get the pans to balance perfectly in mid-air. Is that how this is supposed to operate? Or are the pans supposed to balance perfectly in mid-air? I would appreciate any and all information about this piece!! --Graveymaster[ATTACH=full]163656[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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