Bruce , i can tell from the copper representation of the rope that it IS a sculpture . Besides copper is not acceptable for a test weight it is to soft and to thermily unstable .
For you folks that don't know a steelyard weight is the weight that is slid along a scale to determin the weight .
http://www.ham.muohio.edu/ent/egr303...g_machine.html
I was just woundering what was written on it , ya know something like " Don't cheat your customers or the Emperor will have your head cut off !"