Kwarteel

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The kwarteel was a Dutch volume measure primarily for spices . The Dutch-East India trade company was guided by this measure. Also cod liver oil was traded to Kwarteel.

  • 1 kwarteel = 12 steekkan = 192 mengelen
  • 1 kwarteel = 2 small tons
  • 1 kwarteel = 232.836 liters

literature

  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : Coin, measure and weight book: The money, measure and exchange system, the rates, government papers, banks, trading establishments and customs of all countries and important places. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1858, p. 32.
  • Johann Christian August Heyse : General foreign dictionary or manual for understanding and avoiding foreign expressions that are more or less common in our language: With the name of the pronunciation, the emphasis and the most necessary explanation by Joh. Christ. Aug. Heyse. Volume 2, Verlag Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1835, p. 22.