Context (Acquisition Details)
Accession Register for 1886.52 notes: 'Transferred from the Registry in 1885.'
Event Date 1885
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1886.52[.1-15]: 'A set of thirteen weights and two cubic measurements (reign of Queen Elizabeth)'.
Event Date 1886
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
There is a photograph of this object on display in the Loan Exhibition of Historic Apparatus in Cambridge, held in the East Room of the Old Schools in June 1936, in Gunther's 1937 publication.
Event Date 6/1936
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Gunther, R.T. (1937). Early Science in Cambridge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 27, no. 14
Event Date 1937
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
R.T. Gunther (1937): '[One of] 5 Standard Bell Weights... with loop handles. Marked XIIII... and with the Royal badge, a Tudor rose between supporters.'
Event Date 1937
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Other)
Sent on loan to the Science Museum on 16 March 1939.
Event Date 16/3/1939
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
In his 1937 publication, R.T. Gunther dates this weight to Henry VIII's reign, which tallies with an archive list of weights and measures in MAA's collection (MM1/2/8). However, a typescript list of objects previously on loan to the 1936 Whipple exhibition has modified this dating to read 'Henry VII', which in turn tallies with the later addition to the 1886 Accession Register recording their 1939 loan to the Science Museum. Therefore, at present, it is not certain whether this weight dates to the reign of Henry VII or Henry VIII.
Event Date 16/2/2025
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Standard bell weight (14 lbs) with loop handles. Marked 'XIIII' and with the Royal badge, a Tudor rose between supporters.
Event Date 16/2/2025
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)