desk & parcel scale, Steinfeldt & Blasberg
I haven't seen this Bureau- & Packet-Waage before. A Bureau Waage = German, translated desk scale, suggests that the scale is suitable as a letter scale for offices, and is also suitable as a parcel scale.
The dial bears the logo of the firm Steinfeldt & Blasberg, Patent-Waagenfabrik from Hanover, Germany. This company was founded in 1890 and was a continuation of the company Steinfeldt & Koch, established in April 1887. In 1902, the company name was changed to "Standardwerk vormals Steinfeldt & Blasberg GmbH". From 1909 onwards, the firm Gerhard-Kienholz also used the logo; this company had likely purchased the assets of "Standardwerk" and subsequently continued the business under its own name. An extensive article (in German) about the firm Steinfeldt & Blasberg appears in the German association journal Mass und Gewicht, Heft 59, September 2001, pp 1431-1436, with the title: Die Geschichte der Firmen von Ed. Steinfeldt und Fr. Blasberg in Hannover by Johannes Lindner. Several logos of the firm Steinfeldt & Blasberg are known. Below are photos showing the logo with the balance held by an armored arm, with and without an oval surrounding it. Later, the protected name "Gloria" was also placed on the dial of their scales. The dial of the Bureau- & Packet-Waage also displays D.R.P. and k.k.priv. These are abbreviations for "Deutsches Reich Patent" and for "kaiserlich-königlich privilegiert". The Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy existed from 1867 to 1918. I have not yet been able to find a German patent that accurately describes this scale. The design may be based on the Family Balance by Geo. Salter & Co.
The design of the scale housing is known from household and kitchen scales, with designations on dials in Germany such as Wirthschafts-Waage, or Familien-Waage "Gloria", or "Gloria" Familien-Waage, and from another factory designated as Alexanderwerk. The name "Gloria" has been applied to scales with various scale housings.
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