The next few days of the February challenge is to photograph a household item in b&w. This old scale used to belong to Peter's family and when we came to sort out the house after Peter's Mother died some years ago, we unearthed this old scale in the shed among the cobwebs and dusty tools. We cleaned it up, painted the bass an old metallic green and polished the brass dishes. It is now used regularly and came out today for making pancakes. I got the Brasso out today and gave it a special shine along with the Homepride flour-man weight.
I seem to have got in a mix-up with the dates recently, as this one was taken today but is showing tomorrow's date. February 8th seems to be missing so I will post one tomorrow for the 8th. Please can I ask my loyal followers to watch out for my posting for the 8th tomorrow? And thanks again for all your support and encouragement with the b&w challenge.
Those are splendid and I love your Homepride man. We inherited some shop scales from Nigel's Granddad - his mum spent hours getting the filth off - but they aren't reliable or accurate enough for baking sadly. I imagine yours are more accurate than my electronic ones.
I have one of these scales too but not your lovely Homepride man, he is very cute. They look lovely all polished up with Brasso, I use a modern smaller one as it fits in my cupboard under the work top better.
My mum had scales like this but I don't know what happened to them. My sister probably took them. What a lovely shot and how nice they look. Scales like this also hold a lot of memories. If we could weight the memories, they must weigh a ton!
No, no need to polish them, I'm just curious to see them as they are.