Vintage Worth

[PrettySquareGal]

http://measuringworth.com/calculators/uscompare/

 

[ScionPI2005]

That's kinda cool. If only I were in 1900...I'd be rich! :eusa_clap

 

[PrettySquareGal]

That's kinda cool. If only I were in 1900...I'd be rich! :eusa_clap

Another great reason to wish to live in the past!

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Well now that settles it. I have got to get that time machine of mine running.

 

[Mojave Jack]

Good thing I did a search! I was just about to post a link to this site myself. I was looking up a 1927 Stinson Detroiter and learned that it cost $12,000. Curious as to what it would run to day I found the above site. A new Stinson would still only cost $140,000! Compare that to the cost of restoring an actual Stinson Detroiter. I think $140,000 is a bargain!

http://www.thehenryford.org/museum/heroes/recordbreakers/stinson.asp

Maj, can I hitch a ride back to 1927 with you? And is your time machine large enough to bring back my Stinson?

 

[ShortClara]

I thought I was going to get to look at House of Worth clothing, *sigh*. Oh, well. Your site is cool, too!

 

[Snookie]

I thought I was going to get to look at House of Worth clothing, *sigh*. Oh, well. Your site is cool, too!

Haha me too! Okay, here's one for you -- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wrth/hd_wrth.htm

 

[pgoat]

I LOVE This site!!!

http://measuringworth.com/calculators/uscompare/

This lets you see just how much that "Knox Fifteen" or "Stetson Twenty" really went for back then!

I Use it all the time - when watching TCM, I always like to see why Jimmy Stewart drops his cigar in It's a Wonderful Life after Old Man Potter offers him a $20k/yr job....or why Ralph Kramden doesn't want his $62/wk salary to leak out...etc.

I also use it for work - looking over old archival documents you get a better sense of the type of monies that were exchanged to transact business in the past. I actually just saw where a VIP's salary was raised steadily during and immediately following WWII - but the actual value of his income went down, I imagine due to post war inflation and material shortages....

Finally, it's a good gauge when appraising or selling old items - helps you understand how much you've invested and gained or lost over time. For example I bought a limited edition, signed musical instrument for $500 in 1986, which due to collectibility appreciated in value to about $1200 in only one year. Had I sold it then, I'd have made over a 100% profit. Instead I stored it for 15 years, eventually sold it for $1200, and essentially only got my initial investment back and nothing more (the instrument never kept rising in value, in one of those odd 'collector's flukes'-go figure).

 

[ShortClara]

Snookie, thank you! Mmmmm yummy candy for the morning!