>Prof. Ekkehard Westermann, tells us that a hundredweight was
>different in literally every single German town where something was weighed,
Helmut,
In the case I cited we had the benefit of the involvment of the English
Crown. Weights and measures were defined in the documentation and there was
some element of standardisation through its control of minting. With the
non-agentiferous lead trade there was no such control and the weights used
varied from area to area, and port to port; such that the metal could be
weighed using different standards at a number of points between the smelter
and the end user.
Peter
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