The Field Guide · FN-0012
Notes on a Market Scale
- Status
- Observation, ongoing.
- Place
- Queens, New York
- First observed
- 2026-05-14
- Last revised
- 2026-06-02
A brass balance still in daily use, its pan replaced twice, its beam original. The vendor trusts it more than the digital scale beside it, and so do the regulars. I keep returning to the question of what makes an instrument credible: accuracy, or the visible mechanism of its accuracy.
Provenance and method
Research methods
- Field observation
Sources
- 1Field observationRepeat observation, one stall, four visits.
Revision history and errata
1 recorded revision
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- First published
- 2026-05-16
- Last revised
- 2026-06-02
- Added the regulars' behaviour; the first version described only the vendor.