Ask Cornelius Richardson Jr. why he keeps an old cotton scale, irons, kitchen utensils and tools, and he'll answer without hesitation. "Because you can't find them anymore." Richardson, an 83-year-old ...

A pea scale, also known as a cotton scale, balance scale, or a steelyard balance. At one end of the scale is a J shaped hook for hanging a sack of cotton. On the other end of the scale are weight ...