Antique Scales

Antique scales, coffee mills and safes have been a popular specialty of the Solvang Antique Center for thirty years. We are fortunate to have the most talented restorer in the scale business still doing show car quality restorations on every piece. These restored scales and coffee mills are great pieces of American history, reflecting the design, excellence and passion for quality and aesthetics prevalent in American industry at the turn of the century.

Collectors find creative places all over the house to add these functional and colorful mechanical sculptures to their décor. You will always find dozens of interesting scales and coffee mills in stock at the Solvang Antique Center. We are even available to do custom restorations in your choice of colors and finishes.

Among the enormous inventory of scales you'll find at the Solvang Antique Center will be styles such as fan scales, candy scales, computing barrel scales, miniature and toy scales, over-under scales, ET scales, offset and tilted fan scales, book scales, penny and lollipop scales, justice and balance scales, jeweler's and gold scales, apothecary scales, micrometer scales, piece-counting scales, postal and platform scales, clock dial and 2-sided scales, skeletonized and illuminated dial scales, handheld scales, watch part scales, baby and household scales, grain scales, jockey scales, doctor's scales, book scales, belt buckle scales, hanging scales, moneyweight scales, laboratory scales, produce, grain and hardware store scales, dairy, farm, meat, poultry and fish scales and ball, beam and beehive scales. In addition we offer beautifully restored coffee mills of all sizes, small safes and cash boxes, and painted and cast brass cash registers.

Makers include all of the major and many of the rarer makers, such as Dayton, Toledo, Angldile, Stimpson, Howe, Enterprise, National, Fairbanks, Jacobs Brothers, Peerless, Troemner, Pennsylvania, Chatillon and Sons, Detecto, Detroit, Empire, Salter, Chicago, Dodge, Mills, Hobart, Western, Continental, Standard, Avery, Turnbulls and Triner.

Please note that we do not provide appraisals for scales. For further information and to share your love of scale collecting, you may want to check out The International Society of Antique Scale Collectors (ISASC) and click their "Research and Reply Service"  link.