david webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings all: Some related info on everything you ever wanted to know about household items made of wood:
MUCH SNIPPAGE The late Maurice Stevenson, who revised this book for its third edition, was a senior inspector of weights and measures and an enthusiastic collector of old weights and measures. Other Shire titles by this author are: "Weights and Measures" SNIP COMMENT Gentles of the List, While David Webb - [thanks for a most intersting and informative Posting, BTW, David] - is on the subject of historical weighing - can anyone recommend any Merchant/source for a set of medieval-looking small scales? My Lady Alys Vitel would like to have a set sutiable for a late-15th C Apothecary/Herbalist. Something with a price tag that wouldn't call for me to take-out a second Mortgage to afford to buy the scales, would be nice? God's Blessings on you all this Feast of St. Cassius; - and until He calls us Home to Him for the Last Battle and The Judgement that shall follow.. Yours in Service, Matthew ["Messire Matthew Baker", Governor & Castellan of Jersey, 1486-1497: Motto - "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (Trans:-"if you wish for Peace, prepare for War") ] aka. - Julian Wilson, - late-medieval Re-enactor; Herald, Historian, & Master Artisan to "The Companie of the Duke's Leopards", [the Island of "old" Jersey's only mediæval living-history Group] Meet us at < www.dukesleopards.org >" [input] - --------------------------------- Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail . "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume