Vog (unit)

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The Vog , even with (the) balance , (the) balance and (the) Waag designated or Wog was an old measure of weight. It was true in Russia , Norway and Denmark .

This measure was used in the tobacco, hemp and fish trade ( stockfish ). In Denmark feathers and tallow were also weighed with it and the Norwegian weight measure applied. In Russia the weight was 1/6 lighter than the Norwegian and it was:

In Norway:

  • 1 Vog = 36 pounds = 17.979 grams
  • 1 Vog = 3 Bismar / Bismer pounds = 36 pounds = 18 kilograms
  • 1 ship load (with stockfish) = 70 Vog = 2520 pounds

literature

  • Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Jägersche Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 214.

Individual evidence

  1. Georg Thomas Flügel: Cours-Zettel: continued as a manual of the coin, measure u. Weight customer, as well as the bill of exchange, bank, government paper u. European and foreign stocks non-European countries and cities, for bankers, sales and other business people. Jäger book, paper and map dealer, Frankfurt / Main 1846, p. 99.
  2. ^ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange, government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 431.
  3. Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, dimensions and weights of all countries in the world…. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 370.
  4. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios…. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 452
  5. ^ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios…. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 198.