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A Rare 19th Century French Set of Nested Brass Cup-Shaped Metric Weights.

Item#: SWT578

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A Rare 19th Century French Set of Nested Brass Cup-Shaped Metric Weights. - click to enlarge.

This is a typical 'fleur-de-lis' brass set with 11 cups and a hinged lid. The figures and mass units are impressed on the rim of each cup. The largest lidded cup is the master cup and it weighs 500 gram, which is the sum of the other ten inner cups. The inner cups are marked: 200, 100, 100, 50, 20, 10, 10, 5, 3, and 2 grams. The total adds up to exactly to 1 Kilogram.