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Hearst Museum object titled Weight, accession number 9-12116i, no description available.
Hearst Museum object titled Weight, accession number 9-12116b, no description available.
Hearst Museum object titled Weight, accession number 9-12116l, no description available.
Hearst Museum object titled Weight, accession number 9-12116d, no description available.
Hearst Museum object titled Weights, accession number 9-12116a-l, described as Weights; stacked set of twelve, graduated from 50 tolas to 1/8 tola; (1 tola =180 grains, 437.5 grains = 1 oz., or 1 tola = 11.664 grams); brass, circular, stamped with designated weight on upper surface, inspectors marks below; weights of 10-50 tolas adjusted with lead cores on undersurface; although an Indian unit of measurement, these weights were made after British prototypes in terms of design. Adjustment with lead cores also has British precedents, as does the practice of stamping the undersurface with the inspector’s mark. Tolas now replaced by the metric system, so that at the time of collection it was supposed to be illegal for tradesman to even have old weights in their possession. These were obtained after much coercion from a Hindu dealer in Parsi metal goods.

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