While the Special Collections department has many meticulously documented collections, there are a number of objects about which less is known. One of these objects is a small wooden box containing a ...

Most of us diet and check our weight, but the days of tall scales sitting on a street corner waiting for someone to put a penny in the slot and step on the scale are almost gone. It was during the ...

This scale tests coins to check they are of full weight. From the earliest times, coins have been stamped with information about the issuer, whose reputation in the markets establishes metallic purity ...