Watch List notes:

A Victorian set of scales by De Grave, Short & Compy., "Scale Makers to he Majesty's Exchequer, Royal Mint, General Post Office and the Assay Office, Goldsmiths' Hall...", the rectangular mahogany case containing steel scales with brass pans, but without weights, maker's label on inner lid with acquisition date "2 June 1881", 200 x 98 x 34mm.; an earlier, leather-covered and velvet-lined set, by "Chas. De Grave, Scale Makers, 59 St Martins Le Grand, London", steel scales with brass pans, knobbed guinea and half-guinea weights, weights of coins recorded on folded paper, 163 x 78 x 20mm., both in excellent order (2)
Charles De Grave appears at this address in 1794 edition of Kent's Directory of the Cities of London and Westminster & Borough of Southwark. For a while he traded as "Chas. De Grave & Son", then "Mary de Graves, widow and successor to Chas. de Graves," before the company went through further changes of which De Grave, Short & Compy. was one.

Estimate: 100 - 150 GBP