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The dimensions are 32 in h x 15 in w x 27 in d.
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Some spot on guesses, both here and on the Facebook page. This is a Fairbanks Military Recruiting Office Scale.
A US Army Fairbanks platform scale, used to weigh soldiers.
Have no idea!
It is a scale !
It is either a Commissary scale from Thaddeus Fairbanks or an Army scale by the Howe Scale company,. Both could be folded down and secured in about 30 seconds.
It is a portable freight/goods scale
Portable scale, maybe for weighing gold during the gold rush.
A portable scale
Some kind of scale, but for what specifically, no idea.
Some form of portable scale .
It looks like an antique Portable Scale of some sort.
Fairbanks Army and Navy Folding Scales – Recruitment Personnel Weighing device.
A mobile set of scales.
A portable scale
looks like a traveling scale to me.
It’s a portable scale. Maybe the midwives used it to weigh newborn babies?
Portable scale
It’s some kind of a scale. Maybe for Gold or precious metals?
Antique folding beam scale.
It’s obviously a portable (but heavy) scales.
It’s a portable scale. The only thing I see missing is the lead weights they used.
Portable scale to weigh precious metal.
It is a scale. Portable
Vintage Mousetrap?
It looks like a portable scale
Postal scale.
Scale
What an interesting item; at first I thought it was for portable printing –
But after a closer look it might be a portable scale?