Opium Scales and Weights

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Opium Scales and Weights, date unknown

Unknown makers

Source: Mr. Murray Shaw

Artifact no.: pending

 

Used to weigh precious metals, jewellery, small items, as well as opium.

 

From a Chinese-Canadian merchant and believed to have been used by his great-grandfather to buy and sell gold during the Fraser River gold rush of the 1850s.

 

Photo: Ingenium Museums / P. Martin and M. Shaw (inset)

 

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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Instruments scientifiques, 1800-1920s

Plusieurs manufacturiers

Source : M. Murray Shaw

No. d'artefacts : en attente

 

Photos : Musées Ingenium / P. Martin et M. Shaw

 

Ingenium - Musées des sciences et de l’innovation du Canada

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