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=Extra 1920s Call of Cthulhu Equipment=
==Conversion Rates==
£1=$4.43 
==UK Monetary Standards==
£1 = 20 Shillings <br>
1 Shilling = 12 Pence<br>
1 Guinea = 21s (*Note: The Guinea is an amount used for high numbers, but there are no actual guinea notes or coins.)<br>

Money values are written as Pounds Shillings/Pence; eg: 4 pounds, 0 shillings and five pennies would be rendered £4 -/5.<br>

'''Common Notes or Coins'''<br>
''Bronze Coins''<br>
0.25d 'Farthing'<br>
0.5d 'Half Penny' ('Haypenny')<br>
1.0d 'Penny<br>

''Silver Coins''<br>
3.0d 'Three Penny' ('Thruppence', 'Thruppeny bit')<br>
6.0d 'Six Pence'<br>
1.0s 'Shilling'<br>
2/6d 'Half Crown'<br>
5.0s 'Crown'<br>

''Gold Coin''<br>
£1 'Pound'<br>

''Notes''<br>
10.0s<br>
£1 'Pound'<br>
£5<br> 
Higher notes did exist, but even a £5 note was so rare a shop keeper will usually ask you to sign the back before accepting it.<br>

==UK Equipment available at Harrods==
{|class=wikitable
! Name                ||  Cost  ||  Name  ||  Cost  ||  Name  ||  Cost  || Name  ||  Cost
|-
| Gold fob watch || £8 10/- || Stop watch || £6 15/- || ladies silver wrist watch|| £1 10/- || Spectacles || 6/6 
|- 
| Microscope || £4 10/- || Telescope || £3 15/- || Pocket compass || £2 5/- || Box camera || £1 1/- 
|- 
| Zeiss Ikon camera || £12 5/-   || Film developing and printing || -/8 per image || Radio receiver || £13 || Ball of string || 5 1/2p 
|- 
| Parker fountain pen || 21/- || Portable typewriter || £8 15/- || Handbag || 11/6 || Trunk || £9 12/- 
|-
| Brandy flask || 10/-   || Cricket bat || 33/- || 'Stowaway' folding boat || £17 17/- || Webley 12g hammerless shotgun || £22 
|-
| 100 shotgun cartridges || 15/-   || Webley .455" Mk VI Revolver || £2 6/- || 100 .455 pistol cartridges || 5/- || Butterfly net|| 5/6 
|-
| Naturalist's dissection kit || £1 15/- || Pen knife || 8/6 || Skis || £2 12/6 || Picnic basket (4 persons) || £7 19/- 
|-
| Sleeping bag || 80/-   || Camp bed w/ mosquito net || 42/- || Tent 10' x 8' || £14 18/19 || Travelling spirit stove || 7/- 
|-
| Gardening scythe || 7/-   || Electric torch || 10/6 || Portable 'searchlight' || 12/6 || Traveller's medicine case || £2 9/6 
|-
| Bottle of Aspirin (100)|| 1/6   || Bottle of hydrochloric acid (1 pint) || 1/6 || Church processional cross || £76 || Burke's peerage || 15/- 
|-
| London post office directory || 55/-   || Wisden cricketer's almanac || 5/- || Dunlop British touring atlas || 3/- || Baedecker's guide to foriegn countries || 12/- 
|-
| The Daily Mail || 1d   || The Times || 2d || Chauffeur's uniform || £5 15/- || Evening dress suit || 11 Gns 
|-
| White tropical suit || 30/-   || Plain white shirt || 10/6 || Evening dress shirt || 15/6 || Men's shoes (Oxford brogues) || 69/- 
|-
| Pith helmet || 27/6   || Bowler hat || 25/- || Top hat || 32/6 || Cloth cap || 10/6 
|-
| Ladies' shoes || 49/6   || Silk stockings || 8/11 || Maid's uniform || 12/5 || Leather driving coat || £15 15/- 
|-
| Tin of Heinz baked beans || 6d   || Blue Mountain coffee beans (1lb) || 3/4 || Robertson's jam (jar) || 111/2d || Roses' lime cordial (1pnt) || 2/- 
|-
| Tin oysters || 1/1   || Tin of Heinz tomato soup || 6d || Tin China tea (5lb) || 24/8 || Dundee cake (2lb) || 3/6 
|-
| Loaf of bread || 1/-   || Dozen eggs || 2/2 || Pound of butter || 2/- || Pound of steak || 1/5 
|-
| Bristol cream sherry (cask)|| 144/-  || Cockburn's ruby port (cask)|| 66/- || Johnnie Walker red label whisky || 12/6 || Pint of beer || 6d 
|-
| 20 cigarettes || 1/- || 1st class rail, London - Southampton || 16/5 || 10 day Mediterranean cruise || 20gns || Return flight, London - Paris || £12 
|-
| Gallon petrol || 1/7 || Bicycle || £5 5/- || BSA 550cc motorbike || £57 10/- || Bus fare (4 miles) || 4d 
|-
| 3 bedroom, semi-detached house|| £600 ||Luxury hotel room (1 night) || 8/6 || Hotel breakfast || 2/6 || Hotel dinner || 5/6 
|-
|}