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BalanceVariants: Balance, Pair of Scales
An apparatus for weighing objects; a beam with two opposite scales. This is usually, though incorrectly, blazoned a pair of Scales, whereas the scales are the two bowls attached to the end of the beam which together with them makes up the Balance and are said to be equally poised.
Elvin Plate Reference: p. 39 n. 22


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