Most of us diet and check our weight, but the days of tall scales sitting on a street corner waiting for someone to put a penny in the slot and step on the scale are almost gone. It was during the ...

Christopher Steele takes pride in his unique collection of penny scales. Christopher Steele takes pride in his unique collection of penny scales. At one time, these coin-operated weighing machines ...

Many people have personal collections, but Christopher Steele’s passion ranks highly in both eccentricity and extremity. Steele has collected penny-scales since 1971. The penny-scale was a vending ...

The Fairbanks Company manufactured this coin scale for the Post Office Department. The single-beam, steelyard type balance has a brass beam and tray on a black-painted, cast-iron base decorated with a ...

Once upon a not-so-long ago, you could check your weight for free at some business place. Sometimes it might cost a penny around our happy towns. Every dime store in the halcyon days of shopping had a ...

It was during the 1920s and ‘30s that coin-operated scales were important. The first coin scales were made in Germany in 1885, and by 1889, the National Scale Company was manufacturing in the United ...

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