Measurement conversion rule

Made:
1803-1832 in Paris
maker:
Etienne Lenoir

Rule, in brass, for converting measurements in the old French system to the metric system and vice versa, signed "Lenoir a Paris"

Details

Category:
Weighing & Measuring
Object Number:
1987-226
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy)
type:
metric conversion rule
credit:
Tesseract

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