Decher (unit)

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The Decher , even roofs or Dicker was a piece and counting measure. The measure is sometimes viewed as the decimal " dozen ". It was used in the leather trade, for gloves and raw materials such as hides. In Fulda , there is evidence that 5 Decher, Dechent or Dechert were also counted as a pole. In the tobacco shop, the room or forties with 40 pieces and the Decher or Zehnling, also bush, bundle or bush with 10 pieces were in common usage.

  • 1 cover = 10 pieces
  • 1 cover = 2 cushions (in leather shops)
  • 10 cups = 100 pieces
  • 1 clipper / room = 4 roofs (on the Faroe Islands )

In Russian, the amount of tobacco products was 40 pieces. In Denmark, also for tobacco products, calculations were made

  • 1 room = 2 sneakers / stairs = 4 roofs = 40 pieces
  • 40 pieces of incense (4 roofs) were called a timber / room in London .

The number 40, a room, could also be counted as one room in the form of 20 pairs of sable skins or 20 fox skins in Wroclaw.

  • England 1 thicker = 10 pairs of gloves
  • England 1 load hides = 10 thick ones = 100 pieces (hides)

See also

literature

  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 304.
  • Christian Nelkenbrecher: JC Nelkenbrecher's general pocket book of coin, measure and weight. Sandersche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 154.
  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 377.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 365.
  2. ↑ Richard Klimpert: Lexicon of coins, measures, weights, counting types and time sizes of all countries on earth. Verlag C. Regenhardt, Berlin 1896, (reprint: Рипол Классик Verlag, ISBN 978-1-14697-121-8 ), p. 74.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Elert Kruse : Jürgen Elert Krusens, prescribed school holder to St. Nicolai in Hamburg, general and especially Hamburg Contorist. Publisher's publisher, Hamburg 1753, p. 116.