Medical weights
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Nice Box with Saxon Medical weight.

Decree 16. March 1867
Begin 1 January 1868

Dice weight

200 gram

Saxon Crown 

Dice weight

100 gram

Saxon Crown 

Dice weight

Back of the 100 gram

Saxon Crown 
VB ( do not know what this mean )
Date 1869

Dice weight

50 gram

Saxon Crown 

Dice weight

20 gram

Saxon Crown 

Dice weight

20 gram

Saxon Crown 

Dice weight

10 gram

Saxon Crown 

Dice weight

Back of the 10 gram

Saxon Crown 
VB ( do not know what this mean )
Date 1871

( Each of the weights has this
marks on the back... but not
always the same date ! )

By the decree from the 16. March 1867, a set of this weights have to base on the
decimal system ( pound of 500 gram ) with the following graduation:
200 / 100 / 50 / 20 / 10 gram in dice style
5 gram in half height dice style of the 10 gram weight
2 & 1 gram in style of a small concave ribbon
The fractional weights:
5 / 2 & 1 Decigram ; 5 / 2 & 1 Centigram ; 5 / 2 & 1 Milligram 
in sheet Neusilver ( Argentan ) with one up side corner or edge 

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