Ministry of Finance · National Statistics Office · List PL 1987/208
Official Price List for 1987
Prices ruling at Vellmar at the close of the year, as returned by the market inspectors and fixed for the purposes of contracts, rents and the assessment of duties. Price index 8,325.23 (1804 = 100). Compared throughout with the list of 1977.
The list
Prices in marka and pfen; a hundred pfen make one marka. Goods not sold in 1987 do not appear. The last entry is included by standing instruction of the Ministry.
| Article | Quantity | 1987 | 1977 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A wool coat, made | each | 346 marka | 204 marka | 69.7% |
| Boots | the pair | 153 marka | 88.94 marka | 71.8% |
| A linen shirt | each | 49.45 marka | 34.48 marka | 43.4% |
| Marsh waders, oiled | the pair | 178 marka | 111 marka | 59.9% |
| The Herald | the year, delivered | 470 marka | 348 marka | 34.9% |
| A licensed almanac | each | 6.53 marka | 4.55 marka | 43.3% |
| A Pfahl stake, ash, regulation length | each | 11.99 marka | 8.30 marka | 44.5% |
| A seat at a League match | the planks | 3.10 marka | 2.17 marka | 42.7% |
| Marsh eel | the kilo | 4.70 marka | 3.29 marka | 42.8% |
| Kessel dumplings | the dozen | 2.30 marka | 1.61 marka | 42.6% |
| Butter | the pound | 4.45 marka | 2.60 marka | 71.0% |
| Salt | the pound | 1.30 marka | 77 pfen | 69.7% |
| Coffee, by way of the western ports | the pound | 16.98 marka | 9.88 marka | 71.8% |
| Sudmark wine | the litre | 6.59 marka | 4.60 marka | 43.4% |
| Reed-root flour | the sack | 11.31 marka | 7.07 marka | 59.9% |
| Reed bundles | the score | 2.37 marka | 1.48 marka | 60.1% |
| Peat blocks | the hundred | 9.19 marka | 6.83 marka | 34.5% |
| Firewood | the cord | 71.93 marka | 50.27 marka | 43.1% |
| Tallow candles | the dozen | 3.91 marka | 2.74 marka | 42.8% |
| Coal, Kesselhöh | the hundredweight | 13.79 marka | 9.57 marka | 44.0% |
| Lamp oil | the litre | 6.18 marka | 3.65 marka | 69.4% |
| A bottle of ink | each | 3.13 marka | 1.98 marka | 58.4% |
| Soap | the bar | 1.65 marka | 1.14 marka | 44.8% |
| A clock, with licensed face | each | 959 marka | 670 marka | 43.1% |
| A wireless receiving set | each | 1,174 marka | 814 marka | 44.3% |
| A television set | each | 5,395 marka | 3,190 marka | 69.1% |
| A bicycle | each | 794 marka | 469 marka | 69.4% |
| A doctor's visit | in town | 35.96 marka | 21.27 marka | 69.1% |
| A haircut | each | 2.65 marka | 1.55 marka | 71.1% |
| A day of a labourer | six days the week | 55.46 marka | 33.20 marka | 67.0% |
| One marka | in pfen | 1.00 marka | 1.00 marka | 0.0% |
| Postage of a letter | inland | 49 pfen | 29 pfen | 71.5% |
| Train fare, Vellmar to Marschau | second class | 9.25 marka | 5.44 marka | 70.2% |
| Omnibus fare within the capital | any distance | 1.48 marka | 1.02 marka | 44.8% |
| A night at a Vellmar hotel | with breakfast | 55.95 marka | 35.34 marka | 58.3% |
Ten years compared
Between the list of 1977 and this list the index moved from 5,371.06 to 8,325.23, a change of 55.0%. The labourer's day moved from 33.20 marka to 55.46 marka, or 67.0%. A day's wage bought 15 loaves in 1977 and buys 17 in 1987.
Bank rate at the close of the year: 3.64 per cent. Movement of prices in the year: 1.5%.
The Herald costs 167 pfen the copy, against 107 pfen in 1977.
Authority
Issued under the hand of the Minister of Finance, Birgit Stiegl, in the chancellorship of Karl Nagel. Prices quoted in advertisements and in the press are to lie within fifteen parts in a hundred of this list. Contracts expressed in marka are read against the index of the year in which they were made, the years being counted as the Ministry of Chronology counts them.
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