English Weights and Measures

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The possible abandonment of the English weights and measures system, evolved over a millennium, causes anguish in some quarters. The details of the present system are laid out here in great detail, with some good information for collectors.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Collecting Weights explains that collectors are more interested in commercial (marked) weights than those for domestic use. Names on Weights will be of great use to any collector wishing to identify the various companies who were authorised to make weights, and the dates at which they were active. Picture Gallery presents thumbnail shots of weights, which you click to enlarge. Pictures of coins follow.

History is a very rudimentary chronological table. Other pages are dedicated to different measures, such as those for Lengths & Areas. There is also a link to ISASC, the International Society of Antique Scale Collectors, a single page with information about the Society, and a membership application form. Anti-Metrication expands on the view that abandoning the present British weights and measures system is both unnecessary and wrong.


Here there is practical information, probably of most use for identifying those companies who manufactured weights and measures.