Wigtje

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Wigtje , also Wigge, the little weight, was a Dutch measure of weight and referred to the gram.

  • 1 wigtje = 10 correls = 1 gram
  • 10 wigtje = 1 lood
  • 100 wigtje = 1 once
  • 1000 Wigtje = 1 pond

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. 372.
  • Ferdinand Hessler : textbook of physics: according to the needs of technology, the arts and trade. Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna 1852 p. XXIII.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . Volume 20, Leipzig 1909, p. 622.