Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

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Old French Linear Measure

consequently 66 shillings weigh exactly 1 were the pound Troy. The crown, or 5 shilling piece, Toise the half-crown, value 2s, 6d, and the six pence, are of the same standard and relative weights.

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