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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 80465, member: 44"]I have heard this shape scale referred to as a lollipop scale. Here's another:</p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Toledo-Honest-Weight-250Lb-Scale-/121090632992?hash=item1c31906d20" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Toledo-Honest-Weight-250Lb-Scale-/121090632992?hash=item1c31906d20" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Toledo-Honest-Weight-250Lb-Scale-/121090632992?hash=item1c31906d20</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I've seen these in my family wholesale meat companies back in the 1940s-1970s. As those particular meat companies were started as early as the 1890s, I don't know the age of the scales I saw. Big sides of meat were shipped in by refrigerator cars, trains, from packing houses in Chicago. The men unloaded the cars by slinging whole sides of beef over their shoulders and carrying them to the refrigerated areas. There they were butchered into custom orders for local institutions and markets. They also had this type of scale with the bed/platform at waist level where they could easily places a custom order for weighing. Example:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Toledo-Lollipop-Meat-Scale-with-Platform-Model-31-1821-FR-/281583092299?nma=true&si=%252F7vKWUJ4932E4vXXCHDoX1Wv%252F3I%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Toledo-Lollipop-Meat-Scale-with-Platform-Model-31-1821-FR-/281583092299?nma=true&si=%252F7vKWUJ4932E4vXXCHDoX1Wv%252F3I%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Toledo-Lollipop-Meat-Scale-with-Platform-Model-31-1821-FR-/281583092299?nma=true&si=%2F7vKWUJ4932E4vXXCHDoX1Wv%2F3I%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Toledo-Platform-Scale-on-Stand-with-Casters-/111764948671?hash=item1a05b5c6bf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Toledo-Platform-Scale-on-Stand-with-Casters-/111764948671?hash=item1a05b5c6bf" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Toledo-Platform-Scale-on-Stand-with-Casters-/111764948671?hash=item1a05b5c6bf</a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">--- Susan</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">"American wholesale meat market during World War 2. The meat bears government inspection stamps. Photo was taken as part of the government information campaign against black market meat. July 1943."</font></p><p><img src="http://thumb1.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/2733991/249573460/stock-photo-american-wholesale-meat-market-during-world-war-the-meat-bears-government-inspection-stamps-249573460.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwii/vetservicewwii/chapter20figure94.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 80465, member: 44"]I have heard this shape scale referred to as a lollipop scale. Here's another: [URL]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Toledo-Honest-Weight-250Lb-Scale-/121090632992?hash=item1c31906d20[/URL] I've seen these in my family wholesale meat companies back in the 1940s-1970s. As those particular meat companies were started as early as the 1890s, I don't know the age of the scales I saw. Big sides of meat were shipped in by refrigerator cars, trains, from packing houses in Chicago. The men unloaded the cars by slinging whole sides of beef over their shoulders and carrying them to the refrigerated areas. There they were butchered into custom orders for local institutions and markets. They also had this type of scale with the bed/platform at waist level where they could easily places a custom order for weighing. Example: [URL='http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Toledo-Lollipop-Meat-Scale-with-Platform-Model-31-1821-FR-/281583092299?nma=true&si=%252F7vKWUJ4932E4vXXCHDoX1Wv%252F3I%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557']http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Toledo-Lollipop-Meat-Scale-with-Platform-Model-31-1821-FR-/281583092299?nma=true&si=%2F7vKWUJ4932E4vXXCHDoX1Wv%2F3I%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557[/URL] [URL]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Toledo-Platform-Scale-on-Stand-with-Casters-/111764948671?hash=item1a05b5c6bf[/URL] [SIZE=5]--- Susan "American wholesale meat market during World War 2. The meat bears government inspection stamps. Photo was taken as part of the government information campaign against black market meat. July 1943."[/SIZE] [IMG]http://thumb1.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/2733991/249573460/stock-photo-american-wholesale-meat-market-during-world-war-the-meat-bears-government-inspection-stamps-249573460.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwii/vetservicewwii/chapter20figure94.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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