Riem (unit)

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The belt was a measure for packing paper.

The book was divided into 18 sheets of gray waste and 24 sheets of white waste or writing paper. For printing paper it was 25 sheets / book. The larger unit was the bale of 10 reams or 200 books.

literature

  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking system and the customs of all countries and trading venues. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1849, p. 161 (issue 12).
  • Jürgen Elert Kruse : General and especially Hamburg clerk: which of the currencies, coins, weights, measures, types of exchange and customs of the most distinguished cities and countries in and outside Europe. Part 1, publisher of the author, Hamburg 1766, p. 170.