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BALANCE SCALE PAN - ROUND

Overview

Round metal dish, flat base, raised edge with a round flat bottom and curved top rim around edge.

Historical information

Metters balance scales with metric weights used by Mrs 'Ma' McDonald on her Bedfordale property to measure our ingredients when she was making jams and pickles. The property was on the corner of Waterwheel Road and Albany Highway. Ma McDonald would have purchased the metric weights some time after 1966 when the metric system was introduced to Australia. New cookbooks and recipes would have measured their ingredients using the metric system so to make like easy Ma got herself some metric weights to use with her old imperial balance scale.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-33-COA2022.91c
Material
Brass
Width
145 mm
Height or length
24 mm
Keywords
Albany Highway, Bedfordale
Waterwheel Road, Bedfordale
Bedfordale
Statement of significance

This object is part of a collection of items relating to the development of the Bedfordale community from the mid 1800s to today. These items represent the people, organisations, events and businesses who have had an impact on how the community has evolved over time. The collection shows how this community has grown from a small collection of farms in the mid 1800s, located on Noongar land into a significant agricultural and horticultural zone in the early to mid 1900s.

City of Armadale - History House

City of Armadale - History House

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