local standard

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Description

Notes: stamped with four symbols: avoir dupois mark, crowned G for George IV, ewer for Founder's Company, sword probably for London Guild of Weights and Measures

Summary: four pound weight perhaps made in London and used as local standard, Calne Hundred, Wiltshire, from 1820, and owned by Chappell family of Sopworth, Chippenham, Wiltshire, since at least 1930s, made early 19th century


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