Weights Box

Set of opium weights.

Brown wooden hinged box (part a) with a set of weights inside; hinges are brass. The wood inside has carved holes that hold twelve brass weights of descending sizes (parts b-m); another hole holds five small, light, aluminum weights (parts n-r), and a narrow slot near the front holds metal tweezers (part s). All brass weights are circular with knobs on their top centres; aluminum weights are flat and pentagon-shaped, with the tips bent. The short tweezers have wavy arms. All weights have their unit of measurement and two designs engraved on them; designs are a bird-like outline and an "N" inside a six-pointed star. Tweezers are undecorated; "24" burned into interior of box.