The cost of reloading 1883.

[elkhuntfever]

224586

[Reverend Al]

Pretty tough to read that with my old and weary eyes ... any chance you could translate it into plain, readable text? I'd love to see what it all says ...

[zouaveherb]

The bottom line looks like it is 45.93 which is well over 1,000.00 in today's dollars.

[McCarthy]

Let me turn this around, blow it up, and give it some more contrast.



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[Reverend Al]

Much better and I can read it now! Many thanks for that ... that is an interesting bit of reloading history ...

[PowPow]

Dog collar @ 50% off, $0.52? I guess his dog needed a collar. And $0.33 for a dog whistle.

[Hick]

If you look up typical tradesman wages in the US in the early 1800's you will find that $2 a day was a pretty good wage-- this means that reloading bill cost three weeks wages. Not cheap!

[Omega]

Could it be 1983? I didn't think they had that kind of paper then, the prices seem to be from then as well.

[PowPow]

Freight, $0.67. Maybe this was not an in-person order, or perhaps some items on the list needed to be ordered (the ones without checkmarks)?

[Earlwb]

Could it be 1983? I didn't think they had that kind of paper then, the prices seem to be from then as well.

1883 is correct. In 1770 a British guy applied for a patent to line or rule paper with a machine. Before then it was manually done by scribes, etc. In the 1800's machine printed lined paper became hugely popular too. Most everyone started using it.