Man weighing fish on a scoop scale at market – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic image of Man weighing fish on a scoop scale at market brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Man weighing fish on a scoop scale at market
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A weighing scene like this one centers on the scoop scale, a hanging or counter-mounted balance that a vendor used to price fish by the pound, and the man's steady hand on it is the detail that gives the picture its focus. Open-air and public markets were the everyday places where such scales settled prices between sellers and buyers, and a fish stall reveals a lot about the trade of its day: how goods were handled, how quickly they had to move, and how little was done to keep them cool. Pictures of market transactions like this one are useful to researchers because they record working methods that were rarely written down, so the scale, the catch and the man's posture are worth looking at closely.
| Original scan | 2,947 × 3,775 px · prints to 10 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif12796_ManweighingfishonascoopscaleFu |
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