Jack Rundle sale at Cheffins

[pennymachines]

Cheffins are auctioning some of Jack Rundle's collection: Catalogue Sale 1, Catalogue Sale 2 on 2nd of June 2018. Only one or two slots, including this odd-looking scale. Anyone know anything about it?

[moonriver]

Where is the good stuff?

[coppinpr]

Looks like an "I speak your weight". I guess the restoration would not be easy.

[radiochrissie]

Last time I saw one of those ‘speak your weight machines’ the wife stood on it and it announced ‘only one person at a time please’.

[jimmycowman]

Is that at Junction Antiques?

[badpenny]

Junktion

[pennymachines]

Looks like an "I speak your weight"

I've never seen a Speak Your Weight like it, so I'm guessing it's just a card vending scale.

[treefrog]

I strangely went to view stuff at this auction, not for the scales. Speaking to a collector recently, the scales are apparently German from origin and do not talk to you. They were in terrible condition.

[pennymachines]

Do you know what it sold for, and the R&W two player Hockey?
The catalogue is no longer online.

[slotibartfast]

Last time I saw one of those ‘speak your weight machines’ the wife stood on it and it announced ‘only one person at a time please’.

My wife is so fat, she has a belt called the equator.

[treefrog]

Do you know what it sold for, and the R&W two player Hockey?
The catalogue is no longer online.

Sorry no. I did not think it was R&W though and, looking at the pictures I took, it was Cromptons.... From memory the hockey was around 220 and the pintable slightly more. Think the scales went for about 80 quid.

Pictures below

[pennymachines]

Thanks. I'd forgotten about the Bally Prospector pintable - best of the bunch by the look of it.

[badpenny]

I once went to look at a speak your weight machine in the 80s.
Sadly when I tried it I only heard half the message before it jerked missing off the middle sentence.


Watching it closely I estimated the needle had jumped about 3 grooves, I wondered if it was the record.

But, no, apparently the record was held by a Dutch weegtoestel on Trein platform aantal 4 at Utrecht Centraal. It was claimed to have jumped 7 grooves in 1966 when the Amsterdam express thundered through.

[coppinpr]

My wife is so fat, she has a belt called the equator.

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