Seca - Scale - a column - Gilt brass, Cast iron

Industrial, medical or pharmaceutical floor scale for collectors;
Made in Germany in the early 1900s by the company Seca, this is model 2320!
This type of scale, made in Germany by Seca, is virtually unobtainable (a few similar scales can be found, but they are of French manufacture).
Cast-iron, brass, and bronze scales, like the ones that could be found in pharmacies and medical offices.
This has the functioning mechanism and is still able to determine the correct weight. In green-painted cast iron with clear decorations and profiles, the graduated rod’s brass has a nice patina. Capacity 150.9 kg (140 + 10 + 1), with coarse adjustment from 0 to 140 kg, medium from 1 to 10 kg and fine from 0.1 to 1 kg.
On the brass rod there is the inscription SECA 2320; on the cast-iron rod holder there are two numbers, 12 and 1802.
Generally in good condition with some, normal signs of wear and age, the scale is intentionally left in its current condition.
Given the dimensions (160x48x55 cm) and a weight exceeding 25 kg, pickup at the seller's premises is required.

In 1840, master blacksmith ACC Joachims founded a balance-producing business in Hamburg, after learning the craft from the mechanic and monk of Strasbourg, Friedrich Alois Quintenz, the inventor of the decimal balance. Over the next thirty years, Joachims’ workshop evolved into a small factory, until Frederik Vogel, a young entrepreneur, acquired and revitalized the factory. Vogel expanded the product range and introduced the “seca” brand, which he had registered as a trademark in 1897. The name derives from the Latin secare, meaning “to cut.” The name refers to the “edge,” the crucial contact surface on a scale, where a smaller surface increases the precision of a mechanical balance.

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