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1927 Sears Catalog (Reprint) Most expensive gun is $56. Best accordion costs $75. Huh? Why?
I have a reprinted edition of a 1927 Sears Roebuck Catalog. In it, the most expensive gun you can but is a Browning Automatic Shotgun in 12 gauge. But if you go over to the musical page, they have pages and pages of accordions. I don't know anyone who plays the accordion. I don't think I have ever seen anyone in person play one. Why in 1927 would a top of the line accordion cost more than the most expensive gun? And keep in mind in this catalog, the best guitar they have costs $20.
I am guessing that people's tastes in things like music change. So perhaps accordions were the rage back in 1927.
A few notes here on valuations...
In 1939, during the Great Depression, my grandfather bought a 300 acre farm for $2,500. Complete with farmhouse, barn, shed, spring-house. My uncle was offered a cool million for the place about 20 years ago. Today it's probably worth closer to 2 million.
In 1973 my brother needed to buy a calculator for an engineering class he was taking in college. He bought a Texas Instruments hand held calculator for $300. I think it did things like sign, cosign, tangent, inverse tangent. Around 1978 I bought a much better TI calculator and paid roughly $18. Recently someone gave me a brand new programmable one for free.
I could go on and on about this. I remember an old friend from high school "bragging" to me about how he was upgrading his stereo system. This was back around 1979 and he was telling me how he was paying $80 just for the needle on his turn-table. A great investment - until CDs totally replaced vinyl. And now even I am out of touch, since most folks now use digital MP3 files.
Yesterday's "must haves" usually become tomorrow's curbside trash.
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