Quarteron

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The quarteron , also known as the quarter , was a Swiss measure of volume in various cantons , such as Friborg , Geneva and Vaud . In France it was a smaller measure of weight.

The general dimensional chain was

  • 1 quarter / quarteron = 10 immi = 4 quarters = 16 small units

Canton of Geneva

In the canton of Geneva as a beverage measure and grain measure

A setier had 24 quarterons and a fuder or char = 288 quarterons

Canton of Vaud

Grain measure in the canton of Vaud

  • 1 Quarteron or 1 Gelte = 10 Emines / Mäßleins = 100 Copets = 680 5/9 Parisian cubic inches = 13 6/13 liters
  • 1 sack = 10 quarterons
  • 1 muid / malter = 100 quarterons

Canton of Friborg

In the canton of Friborg it was a grain measure

  • 1 Quarteron = 6 Emines / Immi = 201 ¼ Parisian cubic inches = 4 liters
  • 1 sack = 16 quarterons
  • 1 Mäß / Bichet = 2 Quarterons

Deviations in some places in the canton were common and

  • 1 sack = 12 or 10 or 8 quarterons, whereby the measure itself was a little larger.
  • Boll today only district 1 sack = 10 Quarterons = 687 Parisian cubic inches = 13 3/5 liters
  • Chastels 1 sack = 8 Quarterons = 884 Parisian cubic inches = 17 4/9 liters
  • Corbières 1 sack = 12 Quarterons = 494 Parisian cubic inches = 9 7/9 liters
  • Gruyères 1 sack = 10 Quarterons = 680 Parisian cubic inches = 13 6/13 liters
  • Murten 1 sack = 10 Quarterons = 642 Parisian cubic inches = 12 5/7 liters
  • Stäffis 1 sack = 12 Quarterons = 552 Parisian cubic inches = 10 9/10 liters

France

Here it was known as a measure of weight. The measure was derived from livre usuelle , the half kilogram . The quarteron was ¼ livre, than 125 grams

  • 1 quarteron = 4 uncea = 125 grams (the exception 128 grams)
  • 1 demi-quarteron = 62.5 grams

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, pp. 263, 264.
  • Jean B. Juvigny, Adolph Gutbier: Textbook of commercial arithmetic. Verlag Georg Franz, Munich 1847, p. 402.
  • Georg Thomas Flügel: Course list continued as a manual for coin, measure, weight and Customs. Editor LF Huber. Verlag der Jäger'schen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1859, p. 266.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Rumler: Overview of the measures, weights and currencies of the most excellent states ... Verlag Jasper, Hügel u. Manz, Vienna 1849, p. 76.
  2. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 393.
  3. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 849.