English: Photo taken 2009 by submitter Duncanogi (talk) 11:08, 6 June 2009 (UTC). Engineer's scales presented to George Turnbull in Monghyr, India 1857.
The leather case has the black-ink inscription: "This Box of Scales was presented to me by Mr Metford at Monghyr in 1856 or 1857. G. T."
The triangular scales are engraved: "METFORD'S ENGINEERS POCKET SCALES" and "THOs D KING BRISTOL"
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