{"id":25039,"date":"2021-01-21T12:50:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?p=25039"},"modified":"2021-01-28T12:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T12:14:42","slug":"barcelona-a-manufacturing-centre-of-weighing-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/barcelona-a-manufacturing-centre-of-weighing-scales\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona, a manufacturing centre of weighing scales \/ 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Albert Estrada-Rius<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
\"Seraf\u00ed<\/a>
Seraf\u00ed Tarradell and his wife in front of their establishment at 19, Pla\u00e7a de la Llana. Barcelona, early 20th century. Donated by N\u00faria and Eul\u00e0lia Tarradell i Font.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From a family memory to the public heritage, the example of the Tarradell weighing scale manufacturing company<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Part of the historical material from the old Tarradell weighing scale workshop <\/strong>has recently entered the museum.<\/strong> It is a donation offered by sisters N\u00faria and Eul\u00e0lia Tarradell i Font in memory of their father, the archaeologist Miquel Tarradell i Mateu<\/a> (1920-1995). This year sees the celebration of the centenary of his birth and the 25th anniversary of his death. The University of Barcelona and the Institut d\u2019Estudis Catalans are also preparing to mark this anniversary with several events in memory of the academic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The material is very varied, and all of it is associated with the origins of the family workshop and shop.<\/strong> The Tarradell family entered the weighing scale business in 1892 when Seraf\u00ed Tarradell, initially with another partner, purchased the well-known Farriols workshop in Barcelona from the firm\u2019s last heiress. The establishment, dating back to the last quarter of the 18th century, was continued by the Tarradell family, adapting it to the needs of the market, until the last quarter of the 20th century, when it closed down. A testimony of that desire for continuity is the fact that the Tarradell family always regarded 1766 as the year the establishment was founded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Manual,<\/a>
Manual, handwritten by the locksmith Josep Farriols, Barcelona, 1779. Donated by N\u00faria and Eul\u00e0lia Tarradell i Font<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Seraf\u00ed\u2019s two sons continued the business and with them two branches of the family emerged. One remained in charge of the factory until it closed down and the other disassociated itself from the business, but remained as the guardian of the firm\u2019s memory by conserving the oldest documents referring to it. The aforementioned Miquel Tarradell and his two daughters, who have now made the donation to the Museu Nacional, are direct descendants of this latter branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An interesting anecdote is that when he was a boy, during the long summer of 1934 the future university professor published a handwritten magazine in which he wrote some articles about this family workshop, after reading and studying family heirlooms and the papers that he found lying around his house. In these notebooks, guarded like treasure by his parents and now by his daughters, we have clear examples, not just of his interest in history and the family, but also of his acute critical analysis and interpretation of evidence, early indications of the important archaeologist he was to become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Cover
Cover of issue no. 2 of the handwritten magazine \u00cdntim, published by Miquel Tarradell in June 1934. Archive of N\u00faria and Eul\u00e0lia Tarradell i Font.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The donation includes testimonies to the production in Barcelona of scales and weights, as well as printed and handwritten books and some family photographs.<\/strong> All in all it is a remarkable addition to the collections of the Numismatic Cabinet of Catalonia on the subject of metrology.<\/a> That is, everything referring to local weights and measures and especially monetary ones, from a reputable establishment in Barcelona. This strategic interest in metrological matters is not new, as can be seen in a display cabinet in the permanent Numismatics room, dedicated to modern metrology, in which some scales by the Farriols company are in fact exhibited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Interior
Interior of issue no. 2 of the handwritten magazine \u00cdntim, published by Miquel Tarradell in June 1934. Archive of N\u00faria and Eul\u00e0lia Tarradell i Font.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The incorporation of the new pieces in the donation opens up exciting prospects from hereon for the study not only of this particular establishment\u2019s production, but also of the collective context of locksmith\u2019s workshops in Barcelona over a long period in which the city was an important producer of weighing scales and measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Antonio<\/a>
Antonio Bordazar de Artazu, Proporci\u00f3n de monedas, pesos i medidas, Valencia, 1736. Donated by N\u00faria and Eul\u00e0lia Tarradell i Font.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To mark this admission, the Numismatic Cabinet of Catalonia<\/a> has prepared a small exhibition that can be visited until the beginning of March in the display cabinets at the entrance to the Joaquim Folch i Torres Library<\/a>. The aim is to present a selection of the pieces admitted, to outline how they will be studied during the coming year for the purpose of devoting the 30th Seminar on the Monetary History of the Crown of Aragon to this subject, and, finally, to thank the Tarradell sisters for their generous gesture of sharing the family memory and making it a part of the public heritage, open to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Barcelona, factory of weighing scales<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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