Howe scale

A fine contribution, enlightenment and focus are great!

Thanks so much. I love using shallow depth of field. And it was interesting to be back in my mom's furnace room again where this lives.

I remember scales like these. Lovely composition and focus with the light striking in just the right place,

I had just found this in my mom's furnace room when I saw the challenge. Great timing. I loved using this when I was little and didn't really care how much I weighed (those were the days), but got a kick out of checking my height. I'm glad you like the lighting, the low light in the room helped out.

Wunderschönes Detail.

You are very kind. thank you. Glad you like it.

Good strong and dramatic light =)

Thanks! Low light can do nice things.

well presented Detail!

thank you. it was hard to decide which piece of the scale was the most interesting.

Fine light, nice detail ! Have a good Sunday, Raingirl !

Thank you. Really glad you like it.

A nice piece of mechanical history Laura well captured, by the way access is denied to the PIPs

Glad you like the piece of history. I will fix the PIPs, thanks for letting me know.
[fixed - I think. Will you check for me?]

Love the subtle color. Almost looked like a monochrome shot.

Yes! I like to be on the edge of color and b&w. Glad you noticed.

Beautiful macro and a little mysterious too

Thank you! It is a little mysterious down where it is, so I'm glad that came across.

It looks pretty old.

Yes, quite old. I haven't dated it exactly, but it is at least 90 years old and could be up to 150 years old because the scale has Rutland, VT on it, and the company moved to Rutland in 1870.
www.newspapers.com/clip/5499051/howe-scale-company-origin-in

My family is from Portland Oregon for 4 generations and there was a large home built in the 1880's and this could very well have come from that house. We have furniture that was in that house (we have photos to prove it). So it could be as old as 140 years old. Otherwise it would have been bought sometime around the 1920's. I still need to reseach this particular model to find a date.

Howe company was around until 1982.
www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/this-place-in-history-howe-scales

Ha ha, sorry, this is probably more information than you wanted - you didn't even ask a question!

nice detail

thank you.

The metallic shine is wonderful, as is the old scale!

thanks so much. it's a wonderful machine. i used to check my height on it all the time when growing up. it had come from my great grandparent's house.

.........ein ganz besonderes Motiv,dass du ganz toll fotografiert hast liebe Raingirl ,ich bin immer ein Fan solcher Nahaufnahmen:))

..........wünsche noch einen schönen Nachmittag,ganz liebe Grüße Güni:))