Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 2 for 1950.688: 'Rectangular shape, raised snake-like designs. 50.688: long, rectangular design. 50.688: Circle, tube shape with flat top raised from base from base. 50.688: Geometric weight, double cross. 50.688: Geometric weight. Square pyramid, top square has incised design. 50.688 Rectangular weight with O design. 50.688: Geometric design weight. Square.'
Catalogue card 3 for 1950.688 [continuation of 2, same hand]: 'gold weight representing trunk, flat rectangle with small knobs (see Menzel)'
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 1 for 1950.688: 'Brass gold-weights of various sizes. 10 rectangular or square with ornamental side; 2 long narrow rectangles; 1 round and one double cross'.
Event Date 1950
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
Note on the back of catalogue card for 1950.687: 'Checked July 73. 1 long narrow rectangle; 2 squares; 1 rectangle; 1 chest?; 1 round; 1 pyramid'.
Event Date 7/1973
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
Note on the back of catalogue card for 1950.688: '8 positively identified'. The note is not signed but the handwritting matches notes by D.A.S. dated 1978.
Event Date 1978
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
Tabitha Cotterill: 'Many of the golweights at UCMAA have small coloured dots adhered to them. The numbers written on these refer to the weight of the goldweight in grams' (05/11/2001).
Event Date 5/11/2001
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Display)
One or some goldweights from the 1950.688 series were Exhibited in "Currency in Africa", hosted from June 2005-February 2006, captioned Brass gold-weights. Gold-weights such as these were used to measure out gold dust into standardised quantities. Most of those which survive today bear abstract geometric designs, but some feature representations of, for example, cloth, animals, or weapons. Asante, Ghana. 1940.197, 1950.688, 1970.19, 1981.79 B, Z 25585 F & Z 24515 B.
Event Date 06/2005
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Abrammo. Brass goldweight, rectangular with geometric designs.
Event Date 16/10/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau