Dear Sir or Madam; I am an avid reader of your magazine. No sooner is it dropped in my mailbox than I have it open and am going over the pages. I just read on page 17 about these weights, which this guy from Labrador City found in his grandfather's shed. I don't know how old they are, but I can tell you that back in the ’30s and ’40s they got lots of use, especially in October and November months when many schooners came home with lots of salt fish to be sun-dried and brought to St. John's to the fish merchants like Bowring Bros. etc. In those days fish was weighed in drafts and quintals. A quintal was 112 lbs and a draft was 224 lbs. These weights were used to weigh the fish. The different sizes were used to balance the weights of the handbar and the fish. I saw these things used a lot when I was a boy.   Submitted By: NULL