Standard set, capacity
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- OBJECT TYPE
- SECONDARY/WINCHESTER/BRASS
- DATE
- 1825
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0081.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- UPPER CANADA/GR/1825
- LOCATION
- England
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- BRASS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- 11.7 cm
- Height
- 16.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Metrology
- Category
- Volume
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- England
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- 1825 TO NO LATER THAN 1872
- Canada
-
THE LONG ESTABLISHED BRITISH WINCHESTER MEASURE WAS INTRODUCED INTO CANADA BY BRITISH SETTLERS, PROBABLY IN THE 18C. IT WAS USED AS A LEGAL STANDARD IN CANDA UNTIL 1872, WHEN THE FIRST WEIGHTS & MEASURES ACT OF CANADA ESTABLISHED THE BRITISH IMPERIAL GALLON, POUND, & YARD ASTHIS COUNTRY'S LEGAL UNITS OF MEASURE. - Function
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USED AS A PRECISE MEASURE OF CAPACITY BASED UPON THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S PRIMARY LEGAL STANDARD. IT WAS USED BY A COLONIAL PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT AS A LEGAL STANDARD AGAINST WHICH COMMERCIAL, COUNTY & OTHER MEASURES OF CAPACITY COULD BE VERIFIED. - Technical
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WINCHESTER GRAIN MEASURES WERE FIRST RECORDED IN BRITAIN IN THE 10C AND WERE MADE LEGAL STANDARDS IN 1497 BY HENRY VII. THE MEASURES WERE USED FOR WHEAT, ALE, & WINE (WINE UNTIL 1707) & INCLUDED THE PINT, QUART, POTTLE (4 PINTS), GALLON & BUSHEL. THEY WERE REPLACED IN BRITAIN IN 1824 BY THE IMPERIAL GALLON. - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1 INCISED ON SIDES: 'GR [DECORATIVE SCRIPT]/ UPPER CANADA./ 1825./ [IN CURSIVE] Quart/ Winchester.'/ ON UPPER RIM 2 TIMES: CROWN WITH 'GR/IIII' BELOW AND TWO portcullis STAMPS/.2 SAME AS.1 EXCEPT 'Pint' INSTEAD OF 'Quart'/.3 same as.1 except 'Gallon' instead of 'quart'
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- LACQUER
- Decoration
- ORNATE INITIALS 'G R' ON SIDE/ INCISED LINES & CAST RIDGES ENCIRCLING BODY
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Unknown Manufacturer, Standard set, capacity, 1825, Artifact no. 1997.0081, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1997.0081.001/
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