Featured Mahogany antique weight and height scales c1831-1860

The flints are bigger than a large potato, I live very close to chalk cliffs that have the flints in, the flints also litter the beach so I assume they used local material.

 

Bless Wikipedia. Occasionally, it makes me giggle. To wit: flint can contain "spicules of salicious (sic) sponges."

Can't wait to drop that one into a cocktail party conversation!

 

Fortunately the flints were taken from the beach unfortunately smugglers dug 100's of tunnels all over the town lol

 

Re the use thereof: one builds with what is available. Much as I admire the marble halls of Greece, Pennsylvania fieldstone is my all-time first.

(I am the only person I know who took a geology course because I thought it was fascinating!)

 

I find geology interesting as well, I often ask my 7 year old son igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic, when we pick up stones off the beach

 

See, that's what we miss here in The Netherlands, mostly delta land. Where I live you can only ask if it is sand, sand or sand. There is even a song about our area titled 'Land van zand' - Land of Sand (Dutch is easy, isn't it).

 

Just watched a video on Grimes Graves......fascinating......but lasted too long!!!!

 

Great scale......great wall......great thread.......as usual...all yous guys...rock !

 

Sand can be very interesting if you have a microscope, a good excuse to buy one of these, (that's the microscope in the middle)

 

I love the scales!

 

Hi 808 raver,
The mahogany is WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!
greg

 

Okay the scale is wonderful as is the microscope but that piece of furniture the microscope is setting on is absolutely stunning.

Welcome to our forum & please excuse our inability to focus. There are several folks here who have a very frequent case of ADD.

I can not & would not, speak for springfld.arsenal, but I am 99.9999% certain he was just being a smartass about weighing the cannonballs.

 

Thank you, the sideboard has been in the family ever since it was made, it was given as a wedding present to my great great great Arnity (I think that's the right amounts of greats) around 1860. I now get the joke ie springfld, lol

 

Thanks Greg, it must have been one of the easiest restorations I have ever done, well all apart from the brass

 

Hi,
The grain is deep enough and lucious enough to dive into. Cleaning brass near wood is painstaking. I applaud you for your work!
greg

 

I took all the brass of the wood to clean it, I had to strip of what was left of the lacquer (not much) with meths, unfortunately I re-french polished the wood before doing the brass so I had to remove the brass or the meths would have affected the new polish. It doesn't look like it's been freshly polished because I went over the new polish with wire wool to antique it, then I gave it a coat of wax, that process gives it a new lease of life without making it look like it was made yesterday.

 

Before restoration

 

[QUOTE="bercrystal, post: 238282...
I can not & would not, speak for springfld.arsenal, but I am 99.9999% certain he was just being a smartass about weighing the cannonballs. [/QUOTE]

Yes I just wanted to weigh in on the scale discussion somehow and that popped into my head.

 

Yes I just wanted to weigh in on the scale discussion somehow and that popped into my head.[/QUOTE]

lol

 

And don't forget those with official ADD status, not to be sneezed at. I have been diagnosed with AD....D (sorry, attention wandered). But I always say, what's an affliction with a little stammer between friends.
Still love the threads you post raver, all of them, and think your restauration work shows a lot of love. I'm sure that is something we all love to see.