Mazzo
The Mazzo , also Mazze , Mezzo or Mazo , was a counting measure and meant 50 pieces. The term means something like pack or bundle of countable merchandise. The measure was in use in Constantinople and Mexico in North America. In Mexico, the measure was used in the vanilla pod trade . A Mazo vanilla pods was a package with 50 pieces. 20 of these packages were a millar or a thousand.
literature
- Friedrich Erdmann Petri : Concise manual of foreign words in German written and colloquial language, to understand and avoid those, more or less dispensable interference. Arnoldische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1852.
- Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851.
- Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for businessmen in general: or, Complete dictionary. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 570.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 186.