Tally stick / Exchequer medieval wooden accounting set

Made of wood, textile, and resin. The medieval English Exchequer was a governmental office and court established in the early 12th century to collect taxes, audit accounts, and manage the Crown's revenues. It took its name from the chequered cloth on which officials used jettons and tally sticks to calculate payments. The tally stick worked as follows:
• Notches were cut into a wooden stick to represent numbers or debts.
• The stick was often split lengthwise. One half was kept by the creditor, the other by the debtor.
• The two halves matched only each other, making forgery difficult.
During the Middle Ages, tally sticks were widely used for:
• recording taxes,
• documenting commercial debts,
• keeping track of stocks and quantities.
Size: textile: 147 × 123 cm, 11 tally sticks: 18,5–59 cm, 20 jettons: 8–10 × 1,5 cm