{"id":36,"date":"2022-06-11T01:33:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T01:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/?p=36"},"modified":"2022-06-11T20:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T20:22:46","slug":"miners-or-assayers-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/2022\/06\/11\/miners-or-assayers-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Miner\u2019s or Assayers Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-container-1 wp-block-group\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized wp-post-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/One_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0041.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5\" width=\"399\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0041.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0041-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Miner\u2019s or assayers scale made by G.D. Keller Salt Lake City, Utah USA with 2 drawers and sliding glass door and adjustable legs 16 \u00bc\u201d x 10\u201d x 16 \u00bd\u201d at highest point. This was all G. H. Malan got out of a silver mine that he had invested $20,000 in in 1920\u2019s after it went broke. It was passed to me by mother, as it was passed to her by her father, with the words: \u201cBe careful. Not all investments that seem good are.\u201d (or a paraphrase of that.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miner\u2019s or assayers scale made by G.D. Keller Salt Lake City, Utah USA with 2 drawers and sliding glass door and adjustable legs 16 \u00bc\u201d x 10\u201d x 16 \u00bd\u201d at highest point. This was all G. H. Malan got out of a silver mine that he had invested $20,000 in in 1920\u2019s after it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}