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The Kelpies, Falkirk, Scotland.

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On the beach before dawn.

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Bahnstormer_vRS wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:59 am On the beach before dawn.

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Almost bought this 10'' wrench but fortunately there was that warning - just avoided certain death, phew :thumbup:

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I bought this vintage circle cutter from an old tools dealer located to Norwich. It came with a receipt - someone paid £20 for it back in March 1960 somewhere in Essex. I found this fascinating :thumbup:

(assuming that the notation means pounds but not sure)

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Korkki wrote: Tue May 14, 2019 4:25 pm I bought this vintage circle cutter from an old tools dealer located to Norwich. It came with a receipt - someone paid £20 for it back in March 1960 somewhere in Essex. I found this fascinating :thumbup:

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Fascinating indeed, Kari. But not £20.

20/- was the old UK currency before we went decimal in 1971. Here's a Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A3sd

The symbol /- means shillings, and there were 20 of them to a pound, so it was another way of saying £1. Still a decent sum in 1960 of course when you could buy a new Omega for about £40.
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Thanks Steve for clarification - I also thought after posting that would have been very very expensive tool :thumbup:
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Korkki wrote: Tue May 14, 2019 4:25 pm I bought this vintage circle cutter from an old tools dealer located to Norwich. It came with a receipt - someone paid £20 for it back in March 1960 somewhere in Essex. I found this fascinating :thumbup:

(assuming that the notation means pounds but not sure)

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Kari the convention with many retailers in UK pre decimal times was to express prices in shillings, even if over £1.

So 20/- was the way of expressing 20 shillings, rather than expressing it at £1 (there being 20 shillings to the £).

Yes I remember pre decimalisation, but no I am not old enough to have been buying anything in 1960! :lol:

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So it was not yours originally, Neil :D

Don't understand the telephone number notation either. How one calls to number "DOMinion4012"?

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:fondof: My (unhealthy) love of tools
Collected today, refurbishes Stanley #18 block plane from c. 1912 - 1919.
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Korkki wrote: Tue May 14, 2019 4:55 pm So it was not yours originally, Neil :D

Don't understand the telephone number notation either. How one calls to number "DOMinion4012"?

There's no hashtag :D :D

Not sure if that was a serious question - so in case it was....
DOM = 366

ROM = 766
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Thanks, it was a semiserious question :thumbup:

Tried to google that up but couldn't find an answer :( How do you know that DOM is 366? What is that 'inion' in the middle?
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...and mystery solved, thanks Patrick :oops: :thumbup: :lol:
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