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Author Topic: magnifying weight date please?  (Read 2343 times)

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Offline Wuff

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Re: magnifying weight date please?
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2014, 08:30:21 AM »
I have recently visited my sister-in-law, who has a large number of these old tourist weights. The glass, of course, is a magnifying glass - that's the purpose 8).
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Re: magnifying weight date please?
« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2014, 06:08:56 PM »
Ahh,yup thats the shape thanks wuff,weren't the Friedrch family from Comburg ;) ;D

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Re: magnifying weight date please?
« Reply #12 on: June 10, 2014, 05:48:47 PM »
Prinz Friedrich Karl August Prinz von Württemberg (21 February 1808 – 9 May 1870) was born there.
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