Balance

Balance in a mahogany case with a drawer of accessories, mostly missing, English, early 19th century, part of equipment used by Fox Talbot, the inventor of the photographic negative/positive process

Balance, portable

Small, simple portable balance comprising two scale pans suspended by threads, in an oval tin case containing a note which states 'These scales belonged to .... Carmichael of the Royal Navy. Called by Hooker the Father of Marine Botany'