Four european containers for nesting weights

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Description

brass, with patina, one container (measure for four ounces), two small containers (measure for one ounce each), complete with set of all weights inside; one big container with six various weights;
these european stack- or application weights were not unusual to be found among the Akan sets of goldweights from 1600 up to the beginning of the 20th century.

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Littérature comparée

Menzel, Brigitte, Goldgewichte aus Ghana, Berlin 1968, ill. 1280 Museum Liaunig (Hg.), Das Gold der Akan, Neuhaus o.J., p. 39

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