A flat-sided oblong handle with three "U" shaped pivoting extensions, with hooks on a notched square-section rod marked with increments of measurement and a pear-shaped weight on the end.
steelyards
iron (metal)
Iron
SCALE, STEELYARD
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
25.25 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1094
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