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07-06-2015, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Rick Losey

if you consider the Purdey purchaser an average sort of guy

While I hesitate to concede that I'm average, I am, nonetheless, a Purdey owner. Still, mine wasn't cheap.

The price of the one quoted here can be given some perspective from the Historical Currency Conversions site:

"850 dollars in 1939 had the same buying power as 14,533.67 current dollars."

Today, a new Purdey will set you back about ten times that.

Nothing, it appears, is linear.

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