THE AMERICAN WEIGH The Collection of Christopher K Steele

Chicago’s Art Deco Penny Scales

Ruth K Meyer

Elevated train platform with scale behind waiting passenger c. 1942

National Scale 1891

note acanthus leaf motif above the platform

National Scale

“What you should weigh” chart in

scale window: early example of a

“lollipop” scale,

(a term used by collectors).

Watling

Fortune Telling Mirror Scale

Model 18, c. 1923-29

International Ticket Scale

Model A c. 1928

Joseph Sinel designed step plate and brochure for International Ticket Scales

International Ticket Scale

Deluxe Model S c. 1929

Motion Picture Star Tickets for International Ticket Scales Image provided by Claus Borgelt

Peerless Ticket Scale

Model SS c. 1930

Hollywood Movie Star Tickets for Peerless Ticket Issuing Scales

Chicago Scales in 1930s advertising

Rock-ola Featuristic

c. 1931

Watling Junior Tom Thumb c.1933

Mills Modern Scale

c.1931

Pace Bantam

c. 1931 Jennings Jr.

c. 1932

Mills Modern Scale

for Chicago World’s Fair

“A Century of Progress”

1933-34

Watling Horoscope Scale

c. 1939-40

Watling Horoscope Scale Marquee

Mills Trylon “Scale of Tomorrow” designed by Chicagoan Everett Eckland

for the New York’s World’s Fair,

“The World of Tomorrow”

c. 1938-39

Paul Drake from a Perry Mason TV Episode

originally broadcast from1957 to1966

Image provided by Jack Schafer