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OF PRICE

I believe it may be considered as a fair approximation. In the course of my inquiries I have been favoured with another list, in which many of the same articles occur; but in this last instance the prices quoted are separated by an interval of twenty years. It is extracted from the books of a highly respectable house at Birmingham; and the prices confirm the accuracy of the former table, so far as they relate to the articles which are found in that list.

Prices of 1812 and 1832.

Description. 1812. 1832. Reduction
per cent. in
price of
1812.
s. d. s. d.
Anvils cwt. 25 0 14 0 44
Awls, Liverpool blades gross 3 6 1 0 71
Candlesticks, iron, plain 3 103/4 2 31/2 41
——————, screwed 6 41/2 3 9 41
Bed screws, 6 inch, square head gross 7 6 4 6 40
——————, flat head gross 8 6 4 8 45
Curry-combs, 6 barred dozen 4 01/2 1 0 75
——————, 8 barred dozen 5 51/2 1 5 74
——————, patent 6 barred dozen 7 11/2 1 5 80
—————————, 8 barred dozen 8 63/4 1 10 79
Fire-irons, iron head, No. 1. . . . 1 41/2 0 73/4 53
—————————, No. 2. . . . 1 6 0 81/2 53
—————————, No. 3. . . . 1 81/4 0 91/2 53
—————————, No. 4. . . . 1 101/2 0 101/2 53
Gun-locks, single roller each 7 21/2 1 11 73
Locks, 11/4 brass, port. pad . . . 16 0 2 6 85
———, 21/2 inch 3 keyed till-locks each 2 2 0 9 65
Shoe tacks gross 5 0 2 0 60
Spoons, tinned, iron table gross 22 6 7 0 69
Stirrups, com. tinned, 2 bar dozen 7 0 2 9 61
Trace-chains, iron cwt. 46 91/2 15 0 68