When I was shopping to get ready for the Lucketts Antique Market in May, I came across this jewelry scale. Now, if you’ve read my blog for even a little while, you may have picked up on my love of a few things…fans, typewriters, ironstone and scales. I had never seen a jewelry scale, so I bought it.
I was in a major buy-to-sell mode, so I put a tag on it (with a pretty outrageous price) and brought it with me to Lucketts. Before the fair began, another vendor was over checking out MY scale. Oh don’t you DARE buy MY scale. I know it has a tag on it and I put it out there for sale, but I didn’t mean for anyone to BUY it! Ha…well, she walked away to think about it and things started to get a little crazy with customers. About midday, the scale was still there and I kept eyeing it. I finally stopped resisting and went and plucked it out of my booth and put it in a box behind the checkout.
I may sell it down the road, but I’m going to enjoy it at least for a while. Clearly after the possessive behavior and thoughts of wrestling it out of the hands of a customer flowed through my brain at Lucketts, I wasn’t ready to let it go yet.
(Well, it turns out my “jewelry scale” is an apothecary scale! Pretty cool.)
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Lovely….I did the same thing with a 1920s Underwood typewriter…it still sits in my house..
Sometimes you just need some bonding time. I often put things in the shop with a high tag while I ponder our future! If it sells, cool. If not, cool.
Are you sure it is for jewelry? I have one and thought perhaps it was for weighing seed. In any case, it is gorgeous in its chippy white dressing. Surely a keeper.
A Class B torsion balance is a pharmaceutical instrument for measuring weights greater than 648mg.
~ retired pharmacist
Interesting! I was told by more than one person it was a jewelry scale. So, it’s a pharmacy scale?
I’d have to say, yes, it is a pharmacy scale. Which actually makes it that much cooler!
Rx
A Class B torsion balance is a pharmaceutical instrument for measuring weights greater than 648mg.
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-torsion-balance-apothecary-lab-balance-scale
~ retired pharmacist
Your Human, and their are things you love….so yes we all do it a little….and I think it looks marvy in your home….For me some of what I have at the shop,where I sell are items that have been in our family for 3 generations…now no I am not selling everything..just those items that are no longer my style and my kids have no desire…but I price at what is considerred true antique value.Where we are we often drop our price to move items…some of what is true inheritance it is tough……I have brought a few things home……
That scale is a beauty-no wonder you struggled with selling it. You can always change your mind later but for now enjoy it!
super cool find!
you crack me up!!!
I’m so glad to know I’m not the only one who does this! LOL!!
Sometimes I really like something, but just really need the stock, and later I wish I would have kept it. Right now I’m wondering about an old slate chalkboard and an English pudding bowl…..you have me thinking…
love that you kept this for yourself. good on you. as you can say you can always sell it down the track when you find an even more fabulous one!
ha, I do the same things sometimes…I am getting way better at letting beautiful things go…but sometimes I can’t help myself.
I wouldn’t have sold it either! It’s a great piece….and don’t you just love being able to live with the finds for a bit before you decide if you are going to sell them? It’s the second biggest perk, behind shopping for them.
Greetings from the brocantes of France!
Simone
I don’t blame you for keeping it.I would too!! When I had a shop I sometimes bought things that would look good for display but I did not want to sell them.So instead of putting a NFS(not for sale) sticker on it I would put a really high price on it so no one would buy it LOL.And it worked.I still have a few of those favorite pieces today and that was 15 years ago!That is such a unique piece too!
xx
Anne
A perk of the job – you get to use the things as long as you want before selling them!
Thanks so much, Marian and Ann, for hosting this great giveaway. I never win anything so this is very exciting for me! I can’t wait to spend my gift certificate. I love the work that both of you do. You are both so inspiring.
Dear MMS, What a gorgeous scale! Good thing you brought it home because it sure looks good styled. Will you keep it in your kitchen? Hugs, Anne Boykin
It’s a very lovely (and unique) scale Marian! I can see why you wanted to hang on to it!
I had to laugh at this story! I can’t even count how many times I’ve done that! You’ve gotta go with your gut-it’s better to keep it and sell it later, than sell it now and be sad.
Susan
I would sooo keep it, too. I LOVE scales! Just bought one yesterday.
I TOTALLY relate to this! Especially when I’m in a “I’ve got a show coming!” buying frenzy. For my last barn sale, I snagged these gorgeous twisted wrought iron candlesticks at a thrift shop. I was thinking how fast they would sell and imagined putting some crazy price on them. Somewhere in the process of staging, I just showed them up on my mantle. Now keep in mind, my house has a Spanish Colonial flair. So I go to put them in the show, and my husband looks at me and says, “You know…..you don’t have to sell everything.” I totally burst out laughing, because when I started barn saling last summer he was all worried about me amassing too much stuff. I guess I must be doing pretty well at moving stuff. But they really are perfect with my desert bleached cow skull.
I love it! Just the right chippy, shabby look I love.
I have one of these that I got at a pharmacy school years ago along with some weights, alas mine is just wood, yours is cool looking with the chipped paint
Glad you kept it…at least for now! I recently bought the prettiest old Royal typewriter and Westinghouse fan…a cute little yellow thing! I just love looking at them although they’ll be I the shop before long.
I love scales too. I just found an old hanging scale. It will look cute on my porch holding flowers, peaches, pecans, whatever is in season. I have never seen one like yours!
C-O-O-L !!!!
I went to the cutest little store in our community today (called 27 West in Pickerington, OHio if you ever visit…) that has amazing taste! I bought an old tabletop fan like I have been wanting there, even the base was the perfect color for our master bedroom I am revamping. What’s funny is that I told the owner that she had a beautiful store, then told her about my blog and that I would love to do a post on her shop. Being a new store, she was thrilled so I am going back next week to snap some pics! While pulling up my blog to show her on my phone, Miss Mustard Seed came up on my screen! I told her the name of your blog and that you seem to have similar taste and she already knew your blog and loves it! How exciting that you have inspired so many. Can’t wait to do the post on her shop…hope you can check it out!
I LOVE OLD SCALES!!! I currently have 10 vintage scales on top of my kitchen cabinets. I have been collecting them for years and recently accquired not one but 2 fish-tail pharmacy scales from flea markets on Ohio. I have never seen a scale like yours and I think it is AWESOME!
This is a very cool scale! I don’t blame you for wanting to hang on to it.
LOL I have a very similar scale, and I also decided to keep it. Mine is wood, and I love the chippy paint on yours.
Fun story! I think any of us who sell anything have been there. I painted up a farm scene and loved it. I priced it high, planning to give it to my husband for Christmas if it didn’t sell. Well, it did, and I was bummed b/c there was no way I had time to do another. On Christmas morn, we all got together to open gifts, and when my husband and I opened our gift from my aunt, there was the farm scene. She’d found out about my idea and decided to join in on the fun and give us a double gift of it.
(I posted it on my most recent post, but it isn’t really that great…just means a lot to me b/c of us farming cows and the verse on it reminded me so much of my husband.). Some things are just meant to stay with us. 
Fun story! I also had this happen,but I ‘m very happy~
nice!