Pack (unit)

Pack was known as the English weight measure and the German piece measure. In general, a pack was synonymous with a fard , a bundle (not to be confused with the bundle as a dependent sub-unit of a string ) or a bundle ; whereas a bale or ballot was a big pack.

Packing was a Russian measure of weight of 490.79 grams, equivalent to 30 poods or 3 Berkowitzs.

Piece measure

In the cloth trade 1 pack of cloth = 10 pieces of 22 cloth with 32 cubits each

Playing cards 1 pack of playing cards = 10 games = 12 pile = 300 sheets

Paper industry 1 pack of paper = 15 riess

Were in the French East Indies

1 pack of ox skins = 100 skins
1 pack tube (Indian) = 25 or 50 also 100 pieces of tube

In Russia the piece measure was:

1 pack = 1050 pieces of rabbit skins
1 pack = 25 pieces Kalmank (older term for Lasting or Prunell, atlas-like combed wool, mostly black)

Weight measure

As an English commercial weight for wool and wool yarn

1 bale = 240 pounds

For yarn (see Hank (unit) ) the following applied

1 bale = 60 pack / pack
1 pack = 4 pounds = 1814.5 grams
1 bale = 108.872 kilograms

literature

Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 223

Individual evidence

↑ Johann Christian August Heyse: General foreign dictionary or manual for understanding and avoiding foreign expressions that are more or less common in our language. Volume 1, Verlag Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1835, pp. 106, 366.
↑ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading places. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 965.
↑ Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values and relationships to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 290.
^ Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 2, Leipzig 1911, p. 22.

[1] Johann Christian August Heyse: General foreign dictionary or manual for understanding and avoiding foreign expressions that are more or less common in our language. Volume 1, Verlag Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1835, pp. 106, 366.

[2] Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading places. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 965.

[3] Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values and relationships to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 290.

[4] Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 2, Leipzig 1911, p. 22.