Bundle of sixes

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A bundle of sixes was a piece of measure used by the needles , the needle manufacturers.

  • 1 pack ( needles ) = 6 packets with 1000 needles each = 6000 pieces

literature

  • Carl Günther Ludovici, Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened academy of merchants, or encyclopaedic merchant lexicon of everything worth knowing and non-profit in the broad areas of commercial science and commerce in general. Volume 1, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1797, p. 2392
  • Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 353