EMIL BOHLIN letter scale
This letter scale is advertising EMIL BOHLIN from GEFLE in Sweden. Emil Bohlin was a large coffee roasting company. The company started in 1903 and got its name in 1908. Famous is his coffee blend Emboka. Emboka is an acronym of EMil BOhlin KAffe.
This letter scale is simply the model Rictus by Philipp Jakob Maul from Hamburg in Germany, with a different text. The back of the scale housing has the German patent D.R.P. 384478. At the front below the pressed text EMIL BOHLIN GEFLE is the word IMPORT engraved. The weighing range is 250 grams. More information and links about Rictus scales is at the web page with the Burnus.
Below some more pictures of this Emil Bohlin letter scale (letter scale in Swedish is: brevvåg).
back of the scale
