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 ...
I may have passed my "Best Before" date, but I haven't reached my "Expiry" date!
The bottom line looks like it is 45.93 which is well over 1,000.00 in today's dollars.
Let me turn this around, blow it up, and give it some more contrast.
Much better and I can read it now! Many thanks for that ... that is an interesting bit of reloading history ...
I may have passed my "Best Before" date, but I haven't reached my "Expiry" date!
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!
Hick: Iron sights!
Could it be 1983? I didn't think they had that kind of paper then, the prices seem to be from then as well.
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