Weights, scales, measures and scientific instruments is one of the more unusual departments at Stroud Auctions, featuring many fascinating lots some of which have become highly collectable. Stroud Auctions has been extremely successful in helping Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire and Solihull Trading Standards departments to dispose of surplus items These have included everything from cased sets of County standard weights to bushel measures and standard yards. We have also sold a number of private collections of weights and scales with items being dispatched across the world on every occasion. Notable prices include a rare cutaway Curta mechanical calculator making £950 and a cased Stanley spiral slide rule £1,300.