We had no correct answers or our July’s What Is It. The item is an egg scale!
If you are raising chickens for their eggs you might want such a device.
“Reliable” Egg Scale. Speed-Accuracy. Los Angeles, CA. Circa 1920-1949. Gifting to my friend who has a new Hen House. The scale also works with gold, if that’s still more expensive than eggs. That’s a yoke!
Use a vintage egg scale to determine size of eggs and calculate their weight.
Farmers use a grading system to ensure consistency when packing eggs for shipment and sale. “Grading” involves visually sorting the eggs, then weighing them with a scale, like this one from the 1920s. Different types of poultry lay eggs of different sizes, shapes, and colors.
These early scales were typically balance scales, consisting of a beam with a pivot point and two pans hanging from each end. Objects were placed on one pan and weights on the other until the two pans were in balance, indicating that the weights were equal.
This pre-owned scale would be worth about $65 today.
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