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Collection of Truro City Council (Photo courtesy of Pip Hayler Photography)
1909 Stannary Court Weights
Made: 1909
Record Number: HFC:2019:78
A collection of three weights from 1909, used at Truro's Stannary Court in City Hall. The weights would be used to ascertain the value and quality of the tin brought to the courts from the tin mines within each town's district. Once the tin had been weight and valued, taxs and coinage would be paid at the local Coinage Hall and the tin would receive the stamp of the Stannary town.
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