Antorfer pound
The Antorfer pound, also known as the light pound, was a measure of weight in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland . The use of the measure was the dyeing of silk and its trade. In comparison, the heavy pound weighed 36 Lot or 144 Quintli.
When it came to dyeing silk, the Antorfer pound was also dependent on the color of the silk and was weighed at 30 1/3 lot according to federal values.
literature
- Heinrich Dolder: The manufacture of silk fabrics in the canton of Zurich. Friedrich Schultheß, Vienna 1851, p. 53.
- Gerold Ludwig Meyer von Knonau: The Canton of Zurich. Huber and Comp., St. Gallen / Bern 1834, p. 125.