Date:1850 - 1900 (c.)
Description:Chinese Opium Scales or Do'tchin in bamboo case. The case is shaped like two wooden spoons facing each other producing, a hollow container in the centre. These two pieces are attached at the top of the handle. Inside the hollow is a scale, a weight and a metal dish. Used by travelling merchants and worn slung from the belt. Although they were used to weigh opium, they were as likely to be used to measure herbal medicines. From the Staffordshire County Museum collection. Formerly part of the collection of Mr. Ewart Jones of Newbridge Pharmacy, Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton, where he worked from the late 1950s until the mid 1980s.
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Donor ref:97-010/0070 (37/25474)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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