>>>A metric pound is half a kg? But it's marked as deprecated for ages.
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>>Well I got a printout from a scale at a railway station, "sie wiegen 160 halbe-kilo" in... lemme see... 1977.
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>Western germany. And - only the numbers were stamped, the rest was a form print. Scale runs in pounds and the form fits it to legal needs. :)
>We had this cheaper 160 1/2 kg - must have safed ink

Yup, around Stuttgart. And it was printed on the same cardboard as the train tickets.