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| Loaf of bread || 1/-  || Dozen eggs || 2/2 || Pound of butter || 2/- || Pound of steak || 1/5  
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| Bristol cream sherry || 14/-  || Cockburn's ruby port || £ || --- || £ || --- || £
| Bristol cream sherry (cask)|| 144/-  || Cockburn's ruby port (cask)|| 66/- || Jonny Walker red label whisky || 12/6 || Pint of beer || 6d
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| 20 cigarettes || 1/- || 1st class rail, London - Southampton || 16/5 || 10 day Mediterranean cruise || 20gns || Return flight, London - Paris || £12
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| Gallon petrol || 1/7 || Bicycle || £5 5/- || BSA 550cc motorbike || £57 10/- || Bus fare (4 miles) || 4d
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| 3 bedroom, semi-detached house|| £600 ||Luxury hotel room (1 night) || 8/6 || Hotel breakfast || 2/6 || Hotel dinner || 5/6
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Revision as of 08:04, 7 October 2011

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Extra 1920s Call of Cthulhu Equipment

Conversion Rates

£1=$4.43

UK Monetary Standards

£1 = 20 Shillings
1 Shilling = 12 Pence
1 Guinea = 21s (*Note: The Guinea is an amount used for high numbers, but there are no actual guinea notes or coins.)

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

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

Silver Coins
3.0d 'Three Penny' ('Thruppence', 'Thruppeny bit')
6.0d 'Six Pence' ('Tanner')
1.0s 'Shilling'('One bob')
2/6d 'Half Crown'
5.0s 'Crown' (Five bob)

Gold Coin
£1 'Pound'('One Quid')

Notes
10.0s
£1 'Pound'('One Quid')
£5
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.

UK Equipment available at Harrods

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 Hienz 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 Hienz 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/- Jonny 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
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