1822 · Split Tally Sticks · Werk 721 von 1.871

Two split wooden tally sticks of 1822 on a green baize table in a writing room of the treasury at Westminster in London, the longer stick fifty-eight centimetres long, the shorter forty-six, each three centimetres wide and one thick, squared honey-brown wood, the split faces pale and fibrous, a row of broad rounded notches at one end giving a wavy edge, the longer stick keeping its full square section as a handle, beside them a short broad knife and a wooden mallet, against the back wall bundles of similar sticks tied with cord, two hands in dark woollen sleeves laying the halves together, daylight from a window on the left.
Was die Quellen offenlassen: Welche Summe dieses Kerbholz verbucht und wie Stock und Foil beim Abgleich geprüft wurden, nennt der Katalog des Science Museum nicht; belegt sind die Teilung und die Kerbwerte.