Standard set, capacity
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- OBJECT TYPE
- PRIMARY/WINCHESTER/BRASS
- DATE
- 1860
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0146.001
- MANUFACTURER
- ST. AMANT, O.
- MODEL
- LOWER CANADA/VR/1860
- LOCATION
- France
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General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 4
- 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
- 25.0 cm
- Width
- 19.5 cm
- Height
- 18.3 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Metrology
- Category
- Volume
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- ST AMANT
- Country
- France
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- Period
- PROBABLY USED FROM THE 1860S TO NO LATER THAN 1872
- Canada
-
ENGLISH IMMIGRANTS BROUGHT THE WINCHESTER MEASUREMENT TO CANADA. IT WAS ONE OF THE LEGAL MEASUREMENT STANDARDS UNTIL 1872WHEN THE FIRST WEIGHTS & MEASURES ACT OF CANADA WAS PASSED, MAKING IMPERIAL MEASURES CANADA'S SOLE LEGAL STANDARD OF MEASURE. - Function
-
USED BY A COLONIAL PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT (LOWER CANADA) AS A LEGAL CAPACITY STANDARD AGAINST WHICH COMMERCIAL AND OTHER MEASURES OF CAPACITY COULD BE MEASURED. - Technical
-
WINCHESTER MEASURES WERE CENTURIES OLD BRITISH MEASURES (LEGALIZED IN 1707) USED IN BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES UNTIL IMPERIAL MEASURES REPLACED ALL EARLIER MEASURES IN 1824. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- INCISED LETTERING:.1 ON SIDE: 'V.R.L.C/ Winch. Gal./ 1860./ CHARTRE QUEBEC'/ ON BOTTOM: 'O. St. AMANT.'/.2 ON SIDE: 'V.R.L.C./ Winch. Pint,/ 1860.'/ ON BOTTOM: 'O. St. AMANT.'/.3 ON SIDE: 'V.R.L.C./ Winch. 1/2 Pint,/ 1860.'/ ON BOTTOM: 'O. St. AMANT.'/.4 ON SIDE: 'V.R.L.C./ Winch. Gill./ 1860.'/ ON BOTTOM: 'O. St. AMANT.'
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- LACQUERED
- Decoration
- INCISED LINES AND CAST RIDGES ENCIRCLING BODY
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ST. AMANT, O., Standard set, capacity, 1860, Artifact no. 1997.0146, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1997.0146.001/
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