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Re: Inflation ?????????????
From: Henry Halboth
Date: 2005 Oct 13, 21:12 -0400
From: Henry Halboth
Date: 2005 Oct 13, 21:12 -0400
Frank, My copy of Mixter has no note regarding sextant availability in 1943. I can, however, personally attest to their scarcity, although I was in that time period able to purchase a second hand octant at the John Bliss establishment on Front Street - price $35.00, cash on the barrel head. Personally, I believe Mixter's prices to be overstated - if my memory serves me correctly, I puchased a 3-ring micrometer sextant in Glasgow for less than $100.00 just before V-E day. Henry On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:10:06 EDT Frank Reedwrites: > Henry H, you quoted Mixter as follows: > "Prices of new micrometer sextants available in New York in 1940 are > from > $150 to $250." > > The usual inflation calculators give a factor of about 10 to 13 for > the > interval from 1940 to 2005 so that's $1500 to $3250 in today's > money. Pricey! > > Does your edition of Mixter have the footnote saying that in 1943, > there are > almost no sextants available in New York at any price? When I > finish my time > machine, I'm gonna take a dozen GPS receivers back to the year > 1943. I just > hope I can fit the satellites in it, too. > > By the way, it never fails to amaze me which posts (of my own) > generate > replies and get conversations rolling and which ones just sit there. > You never > can tell, and you surely shouldn't take it personally. > > -FER > 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. > www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars >