Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 5/28/2005 5:33:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time, jon.stanton@comcast.net writes: "A Leica could be obtained in Germany for the equivalent of $20 in US cigarettes and would sell in New York for $600. The delivery to the States via G.I. mail was duty free." How much was a pack of cigarettes at that time? As recent as 1970 I remember buying cartons of cigarettes for $2 each in Indiana. In 1958 the price was 15 cents a pack at the Frankfurt PX. Retail in the states was about 35 cents a pack then. I read that after the war, the retail value in Germany "on the economy" of one American cigarette was forty cents, (remembering that those were the days when a hundred dollar suit was a hundred dollar suit.) Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish