Bottle (unit)
The bottle , also known as Flask in Scandinavia , was a measure of volume for liquids. In the Cape , the measure corresponded to the stoop . In the Netherlands (= here still referred to as Holland) it was an older measure and was called Flesch.
- Nassau: 1 bottle = 1 liter
- Prussia for wine : 1 bottle = 0.8588 liters (= 6/7 l)
- Denmark : 1 Flask = 3 levels = 0.7246 liters (= 8/11 l)
- Holland brandy : 1 bottle = 0.88 liters (= 8/9 l)
- Tuscany oil : 1 Fiasco / Fiascho = 2.0893 liters (= 2 1/11 l)
- Tuscany wine: 1 Fiasco / Fiascho = 2.2792 liters (= 2 5/18 l)
- Argentina : 1 Frasco / bottle = 2.75 liters (= 2 3/8 l)
- Mexico : 1 Frasco / bottle = 2.8 liters (= 2 4/5 l)
- Paraguay : 1 Frasco / bottle = 2.44438 liters (= 2 4/9 l)
- Uruguay : 1 Frasco / bottle = 2.63469 liters (= 2 7/11 l)
See also
- an Italian wine bottle, see Fiasco (bottle)
- an Italian volume measure, see Fiasco (unit)
- a Spanish measure of volume frasco (unit)
- in Russian: Butylka
literature
- For silver: The universal calculator for business transactions: Contains the conversion of coins, weights, etc. Dimensions of all countries in the world. Volume 1, Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1870, pp. 128, 131.