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Scales
Rod Salter writes that:
Salter scales was formed by George Salter in the early 1800s, and like a lot of people in Bilston and that part of the midlands they had little foundries and metal working tools, lathes, anvils etc in their back yards, making really anything from metal. Then, at the outbreak of one of the wars, the government asked them to make bayonets , which they did. George Salter became the collector and quality controller of the bayonets. At the end of the war they had to make something else and good old George continued to make spring balances and the company just grew. It is now out of the Salter family, going to a family called Bache some years ago, but still trades under the Salter name.
There is a book called The history of a family firm: Salter scales It is very old and hard to get, but it tells the whole story in some detail .
Hughes Scales
All scales had the Staffordshire Knot with an arrow through it as a Trade Mark. It was previously thought only Salters Scales used this Trade Mark.
The two photographs that appear below are of a set of Hughes scales, as they appear in a photograph in Beautiful Cross Stitch Samplers, an Australian magazine.
If anyone can assist with further details of Hughes Scales, please contact Linda at kapana@netspace.net.au
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By camparison, a set of slightly larger scales owned by the Linda, has the following on the face:
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SALTER
No. 50T
1/4874
[pointer]
FOR USE BY ITINERANT
VENDORS ONLY
TO WEIGH
10LB BY [half] OZ
[knot with arrow through it and word SALTER above]
MADE IN ENGLAND
Last updated on 17 June 2000