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    W&T Avery pair of "stands" - help please with identifying.

    Thank you kindly. He now is pondering what to do with the second one - not quite identical as the top is a little more fancy !
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    Thank you to forums like this one!

    At the end of last year, I optimistically joined this forum to try to find out what a pair of rather odd cast iron stands might originally have been used for. They were marked W&T Avery, but beyond that I had very little to go on. Within a short time several members here recognised them as the...
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    W&T Avery pair of "stands" - help please with identifying.

    Just a quick follow-up and thank you to everyone who helped identify the cast iron stands I posted about a while back. Thanks to the suggestions and photos shared here, it became clear they were the centre posts from an old W&T Avery merchant/balance scale. That piece of information unlocked...
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    W&T Avery pair of "stands" - help please with identifying.

    60 cms high which made me think they were table top size.
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    W&T Avery pair of "stands" - help please with identifying.

    Wow! That looks identical to one of the posts. The one with an angular hinged section is a puzzle. Maybe just a different type of scale. Thank you so much!
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    W&T Avery pair of "stands" - help please with identifying.

    Sounds like a likely option. Now looking for a picture .... thank you. I don't ever remember being weighed at school.
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    W&T Avery pair of "stands" - help please with identifying.

    I have 2 cast iron items and I’m trying to figure out what they originally were used for? They are very similar, but one does not have the hinged piece at the top which looks original to me. Both are marked W&T Avery. My mother acquired them from somewhere, but she has no idea what they were...
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