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I'll take two!
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what has happened to the value of our dollar?!!
If this is the "real value" of our currency then I suspect a brand new house would cost around $2500-5000 and a new car in the range of $400-800 depending on options.
Gotta love those old catalogs.
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I'll take a Stainer and a Strad, please. 
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Oh wow!!! Early 1900's??
I actually found the Sear's Catalog page that featured my 2 rescue violins! I would love to buy like 20 violins!! LOL
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FiddlerShop can unfortunately not compete. 
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Considering how the average worker was making back then, I wonder if nowadays violins cost more or less then before?
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Close as I could come from quick search.
The subject catalog is from about 1834.
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I've heard that the cost of the violins in the pic I posted was nearly equivalent to 3 weeks worth of pay of the average worker. I wonder how the modern violins stack up against our average pay........
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Please Sir can I have a #93.
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Congratulations EjKiszenia! You are now a Honorary Advisor.
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Give me excess of it ..(William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night)
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sears had their hands in everything back in the day.
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suresh said
Congratulations EjKiszenia! You are now a Honorary Advisor.
Oh wow!!! I didn't even notice!!! Thank you so much!! My, how time flies around here! 
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Congrats Eric!!!! 
You understand that it is a "gum beat" meter.
Hope you change your mind.Honorary tenured advisor
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I hope you are just kidding Oliver. Seriously!!!
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He's kidding. We won't let him stop. 🙂
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You can't go anywhere! I am still reading all your post...interesting, funny...these could be a Fiddlerman Press set of books, lol.
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