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My wounds have miraculously healed! Once more into the fray... :)

Regards,
Neil

Shrinkage of horn does not round lead edges.

I give up the fight, wounded, I retreat from the field!

Regards,
Neil

Aaaaargh! I am not discounting the shrinkage theory - I agree that they have shrunk (groan), what I am wondering about is the smooth and even edge of the lead wedge. C'mon. I couldn't possibly put...

As you can see from my post Richard, I have not discounted scale shrinkage - horn is a natural, organic material after all, as we all know. I think we have all seen it before, along with other scale...

No idea.

I don't think it was for reducing weight - if it was, it would reduce the weight of the wedge by a minimal amount, besides, they could have used the 'one piece' wedge where one scale...

Maybe on this one, the hole when lined up with the scales showed that the wedge did not quite meet the scales on one side, so they hammed it with a blunt piece of metal to expand it a bit? Who...

The sleeve is quite interesting and unusual - I had a client that had me rescale or unpin twenty of so of these oldies for a display case and neither these, nor the 50 or so I have done for myself...