Cortsch

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Cortsch , also Conge, Corge, Carge or Coden, was a measure for countable goods. Similar spellings are also known and so the Kudi, Coodee, Korjee, Kohrdsch were synonymous. The names corresponded to the bale . One piece was the Cal.

Textile trade

The measure applied in Bombay , Sumatra and other East Indian islands . Countable goods were taken in units of 20 pieces . For example

  • 1 Kohrdsch = 20 towels

This number of pieces was divided into 4 gondas / gundas with 5 pieces each. This included goods from textile manufacturers such as cotton products . The piece measure was also used for other goods, such as raw and tanned hides , in Calcutta for silk cloths and untanned hides. When tobacco an exception was made and Sumatra there were so-called 40 baskets / Körbi which was understood as the measure.

General use

Cortsch, Corge, also Courge, Corsen, Corgen or Korsch are other ways of writing the piece measure.

As corge it was an English measure and also means bale. The measure also applied in Singapore from 1819 (the year the English trading branch was founded in Singapore). In East India (Bombay) the measure was called conge, which corresponds to the measure in the fish trade, cloth and linen trade (see above), wood, tobacco and leather trade, stairs (20 pieces). While Conge was used more in retail, Corge was more reserved for wholesale.

  • 1 corge = 20 pieces

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 50.
  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 965.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1201.
  2. ↑ Christian Nelkenbrecher, JC Nelkenbrecher's General Pocket Book of Coin, Measure and Weight, Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 454.
  3. ^ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 390.
  4. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon. Volume 11. Leipzig 1907, p. 248.
  5. ^ Association of practical merchants: The latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers. Volume 1, Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 335.
  6. ↑ Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Friedrich Rühs: Taschenbuch der Reisen, or entertaining presentation of the discoveries of the 18th century in consideration of the countries, people and product knowledge. Volume 12, G. Fleischer d. Jüng., Leipzig 1813, p. 99.
  7. ↑ August Schiebe : Universal Lexicon of Commercial Sciences. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer / Gebrüder Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 212.
  8. ↑ Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, measurements and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse. Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 48.