ISASC Europe: Links

Members' sites (plus many others of interest):

ISASC (America)'s official web-site
Excellent books on collecting weights by Norman Biggs
André Sol's site about Letter Scales
Coins and weights (and indeed coin-weights!) may be had from Galata Coins
Simmons Gallery runs regular postal auctions of weights & scales
Lots of information about English weights & measures
Thomas Allgeier's site about Stanton Instruments
An article in the Financial Times by an ex-Chairman (Janet Scarratt)
A sister site belonging to the German Society for Metrology - beautiful photos, text is naturally in German!
A visually exciting website belonging to a private museum and collection in the USA - many scientific instruments
A stunning visual display of Scots weights and measures in museum collections - 1707 was an important date in the Union, and some of these sets date from the reign of Queen Anne, who was monarch when Scotland and England joined together
A recent member's site, a museum at a fascinating location in Central Germany
Another new member's site! German scalemakers with 125 years of history
Australia has a strong connection with United Kingdom Weights and Measures - here's a sample item from the Powerhouse Museum collection in Sydney, featuring Captain Henry Kater, with further informative links and browsing
Herbert's, the renowned English scale manufacturer which in 2010 celebrated 250 years in business, with a further link to their dedicated history project website
NEW! New Zealand museums have a collective site with a good search engine - try 'weights' or 'bullion scales' for pictures and text of some stunning artefacts of folk and colonial history