Accession No

3842

Brief Description

indenture for measures of capacity for the use of the Borough of Cambridge, 1936

Origin

England

Maker

Class

ephemera

Earliest Date

1936

Latest Date

1936

Inscription Date

9-12-1936

Material

paper

Dimensions

breadth 406mm; height 278mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Inscription

begins ‘This Indenture Withnesseth that the local Standard Measures of Capacity
herein described have been compared with and verified by the Standards of the Board of Trade…’

Description Notes

Printed, typed and handwritten indenture for measures of capacity, one bushel to one half-gill, made by R.B. Bate in 1824 for the University of Cambridge and one one-quarter gill measure marked ‘Borough of Cambridge 1873’. All gunmetal cylindrical measures, taken over by the Borough of Cambridge. Endorsed verifications on 1879, 1936, 1946, 1952, 1962.

Condition good; complete.

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