Ministry of Finance · National Statistics Office · List PL 1995/167
Official Price List for 1995
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 9,159.91 (1804 = 100). Compared throughout with the list of 1985.
The list
Prices in marka and pfen; a hundred pfen make one marka. Goods not sold in 1995 do not appear. The last entry is included by standing instruction of the Ministry.
| Article | Quantity | 1995 | 1985 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A wool coat, made | each | 348 marka | 328 marka | 6.1% |
| Boots | the pair | 153 marka | 153 marka | 0.0% |
| A linen shirt | each | 58.81 marka | 50.16 marka | 17.2% |
| Marsh waders, oiled | the pair | 191 marka | 179 marka | 7.1% |
| The Herald | the year, delivered | 506 marka | 478 marka | 5.8% |
| A licensed almanac | each | 7.84 marka | 6.18 marka | 26.9% |
| A Pfahl stake, ash, regulation length | each | 14.29 marka | 11.35 marka | 25.9% |
| A seat at a League match | the planks | 3.74 marka | 2.93 marka | 27.5% |
| Marsh eel | the kilo | 5.66 marka | 4.44 marka | 27.4% |
| Kessel dumplings | the dozen | 2.75 marka | 2.58 marka | 6.5% |
| Butter | the pound | 4.49 marka | 4.22 marka | 6.4% |
| Salt | the pound | 1.32 marka | 1.23 marka | 7.2% |
| Coffee, by way of the western ports | the pound | 17.04 marka | 17.04 marka | 0.0% |
| Sudmark wine | the litre | 7.91 marka | 6.69 marka | 18.3% |
| Reed-root flour | the sack | 13.47 marka | 11.48 marka | 17.3% |
| Reed bundles | the score | 2.56 marka | 2.39 marka | 7.0% |
| Peat blocks | the hundred | 11.76 marka | 9.36 marka | 25.6% |
| Firewood | the cord | 86.56 marka | 68.08 marka | 27.1% |
| Tallow candles | the dozen | 4.67 marka | 3.70 marka | 26.2% |
| Coal, Kesselhöh | the hundredweight | 16.49 marka | 15.48 marka | 6.5% |
| Lamp oil | the litre | 6.28 marka | 5.85 marka | 7.4% |
| A bottle of ink | each | 3.37 marka | 3.18 marka | 5.8% |
| Soap | the bar | 1.96 marka | 1.54 marka | 26.9% |
| A clock, with licensed face | each | 1,143 marka | 908 marka | 25.9% |
| A wireless receiving set | each | 1,401 marka | 1,111 marka | 26.2% |
| A television set | each | 5,496 marka | 5,112 marka | 7.5% |
| A bicycle | each | 800 marka | 752 marka | 6.3% |
| A doctor's visit | in town | 36.27 marka | 34.08 marka | 6.4% |
| A haircut | each | 2.67 marka | 2.51 marka | 6.3% |
| A day of a labourer | six days the week | 113 marka | 95.23 marka | 18.8% |
| One marka | in pfen | 1.00 marka | 1.00 marka | 0.0% |
| Postage of a letter | inland | 1.74 marka | 1.64 marka | 6.1% |
| Train fare, Vellmar to Marschau | second class | 25.56 marka | 25.56 marka | 0.0% |
| Omnibus fare within the capital | any distance | 2.94 marka | 2.48 marka | 18.4% |
| A night at a Vellmar hotel | with breakfast | 60.27 marka | 56.85 marka | 6.0% |
Ten years compared
Between the list of 1985 and this list the index moved from 7,962.42 to 9,159.91, a change of 15.0%. The labourer's day moved from 518 marka to 637 marka, or 23.1%. A day's wage bought 163 loaves in 1985 and buys 174 in 1995.
Bank rate at the close of the year: 3.93 per cent. Movement of prices in the year: 2.5%.
The Herald costs 183 pfen the copy, against 159 pfen in 1985.
Authority
Issued under the hand of the Minister of Finance, Pavel Klungir, in the chancellorship of Rolf Quast. 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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