Double

Double measure was a volume measure and in the Swiss canton of Solothurn it was used as a grain measure. It was so named because two measures made a double measure.

1 double size = 2 size = 8 Immerli = 16 eighths = 32 Batzendigli

1 double size = 1335 ⅓ Parisian cubic inches = 26 ½ liters

literature

CLW Aldefeld: The dimensions and weights of the German customs union states and many other countries and trading centers in their mutual relationships. Verlag JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart / Tübingen 1838, p. 266.

The latest in money, coins, measurements and weights for merchants, businessmen and newspaper readers. Publishing house of the general trading newspaper, Nuremberg 1814.

Individual evidence

^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measurements and weights of all countries in the world .... Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 63.

[1] Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measurements and weights of all countries in the world .... Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 63.