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.
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