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Description: | A cast copper alloy trade weight.
The weight has been marked with three stamped identification markings.
1) A ewer, which represents the fact that the weight has been approved.
2) A quartered shield of the Guildhall.
3) An unidentifiable mark.
If the ewer is positioned at 6 O?clock then the shield is at 11 o?clock. With the unidentified mark at 2 o?clock.
This weight was issued after 1826. In 1826 an Act came in establishing the new ?Imperial Standards?.
The weight is flat, with a raised rim. The inner (stamped) part of weight has finely turned.
The reverse in flat.
This weight dates from post 1826. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1826 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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