Weights for scales 1876?

Found this old round weights. Assuming they are for some kind apothecary scales.
There are multiple hallmarks or stamps. Not sure what they mean and is that set really from 1876?

 

So there is a stamps for several years meaning weights were expected yearly?

 

If it's being used for trade, it's supposed to be inspected regularly.

These marks are from a pewter mug. If it says a pint, it's supposed to be a pint.


When I was a kid, I worked fixing gas pumps. Before they were re-installed, they had to be certified within a cubic inch of the volume stated on the meter. A lead seal was applied to the adjustment so it couldn't be changed. Normally, the previous seal was a year old, but I fixed a couple of pumps with seals that went back ten or fifteen years. Slipped through the cracks.

Bureau of Weights and Measures (or something similar).

 

nice set of weights....

 

it has the Bavarian crest with 1872. so they were retested and marked in 1872 for the newly introduced "proper" metric system in accordance with the Prussian system. the 500 G mark is a remnant of the old system where 500 grams were a Pfund (half a kilogram), . seems they re-used old weights and re-checked and re-marked them.

 

Beat me to the punch Fid, concur with your comment

 

Bayern und Hessen übernehmen die Maß- und Gewichtsordnung des Norddeutschen Bundes am 29. April 1869 mit Wirkung zum 1. Januar 1872

just in case anyone is really interested how the old unities were replaced step-by-step, here a good site. sadly in German.

http://preussische-masse.de/alte_masse/alte_masse_metrisch.html

we might think what we want about Napoleon. one advantage on the continent was certainly the start of the induction of the metric system.
I still have to laugh about my attempt when I looked for a definition of "loaf" that was in use in UK bakeries certainly till the 1970s ...