Balance Weights

A miner must be able to measure his wealth. Gold is so valuable that these extremely accurate weights were used by the assayer, with the balance beam scale, to determine the worth of the ore samples. It is possible that Did Death Valley Scotty used these weights to measure the gold from his hidden mine.
Wood, velvet. L 12.06, W 8.25, H 4.13 cm

Death Valley National Park, DEVA 14400