Black Forest bear
with letter scale

These wood-carved bears are usually said to have come from the Black Forest in Germany. But they are also referred to as Brienzer bears. Brienz is a lot further south in Switzerland. There are different versions: a letter scale with a sitting bear, sometimes near a tree stump as shown before here, with a standing bear, with a bear lying on its back. The letter scales go up to 50 grams, or up to 60 grams or, like this one, up to 100 grams. Sometimes something else can be indicated on the basis of the scale mechanism. For example, there are self-adjusting scales, these are of a more recent date.
This bear letter scale does not need a zero adjustment screw, it is a self-adjusting mechanism because the pointer arm rotates on the same axis as the scale. On other scale mechanisms with bear, a zero adjustment screw is sometimes required.
The scale part comes from Philipp Jakob Maul from Hamburg in Germany. The M logo is on the scale. Also D.R.G.M. is on it. D.R.G.M. is the abbreviation for Deutsches Reich GebrauchsMuster, a design protection that is faster and cheaper to obtain compared to a patent protection.
The concav scale goes up to 100 grams, there is a stripe of measure per gram. The height of the bear's ears is 13 centimeters, the scale is 20 centimeters high. The diameter of the letter tray is 7.5 centimeters.
Below some more pictures of this bear with letter scale.