mail & express scale
This is a firm gold colored postal scale made by Pelouze Scale & MFG. Co., Chicago, USA. The chart has a lot of postal rate information. Information for letters, First Class and local, Air Mail, Newspapers and magazines, Books and seeds!, merchandise and Printing. The letter rate for sending to Canada, South America, Cuba is 3c per ounce. To other countries it is 5c the first ounce, extra ounces cost 3c each. The local rate is subdivided into eight zones and is specified per Lbs. The range of this scale is 10 Lbs and has a stripe of measure per ounce. The letter rate of 3c per ounce was valid in the period 1917-1919 and again in the period 1932-1958. Below some more pictures of this solid postal scale.
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