Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/15
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on 15/1/01 7:43 pm, Dr. Joseph Yao at Joseph@yao.com wrote:
> I wasn't around then, but £35.25 would have been more like US$100 back in
> 1935.
I think even more than that - as much as $10 to the pound at one point
around then. In any case it was during global recession so probably very few
people anywhere could afford a fancy camera relative to these days of
affluence...
Rs
Adrian
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