Ministry of Finance · National Statistics Office · List PL 2006/560
Official Price List for 2006
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 11,480.74 (1804 = 100). Compared throughout with the list of 1996.
The list
Prices in marka and pfen; a hundred pfen make one marka. Goods not sold in 2006 do not appear. The last entry is included by standing instruction of the Ministry.
| Article | Quantity | 2006 | 1996 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A wool coat, made | each | 482 marka | 360 marka | 33.9% |
| Boots | the pair | 213 marka | 157 marka | 35.6% |
| A linen shirt | each | 68.88 marka | 60.77 marka | 13.3% |
| Marsh waders, oiled | the pair | 248 marka | 219 marka | 13.2% |
| The Herald | the year, delivered | 654 marka | 580 marka | 12.9% |
| A licensed almanac | each | 8.54 marka | 8.03 marka | 6.4% |
| A Pfahl stake, ash, regulation length | each | 18.60 marka | 14.77 marka | 25.9% |
| A seat at a League match | the planks | 4.36 marka | 3.83 marka | 14.0% |
| Marsh eel | the kilo | 7.30 marka | 5.80 marka | 26.0% |
| Kessel dumplings | the dozen | 3.58 marka | 2.84 marka | 26.1% |
| Butter | the pound | 6.20 marka | 4.60 marka | 34.9% |
| Salt | the pound | 1.81 marka | 1.35 marka | 33.9% |
| Coffee, by way of the western ports | the pound | 23.65 marka | 17.63 marka | 34.1% |
| Sudmark wine | the litre | 9.28 marka | 8.10 marka | 14.5% |
| Reed-root flour | the sack | 15.75 marka | 13.92 marka | 13.2% |
| Reed bundles | the score | 3.31 marka | 2.93 marka | 13.0% |
| Peat blocks | the hundred | 12.95 marka | 11.37 marka | 13.9% |
| Firewood | the cord | 112 marka | 88.63 marka | 25.9% |
| Tallow candles | the dozen | 6.08 marka | 4.83 marka | 26.0% |
| Coal, Kesselhöh | the hundredweight | 19.22 marka | 17.05 marka | 12.7% |
| Lamp oil | the litre | 8.68 marka | 6.43 marka | 34.9% |
| A bottle of ink | each | 4.41 marka | 3.86 marka | 14.1% |
| Soap | the bar | 2.14 marka | 2.01 marka | 6.4% |
| A clock, with licensed face | each | 1,488 marka | 1,182 marka | 25.9% |
| A wireless receiving set | each | 1,808 marka | 1,449 marka | 24.8% |
| A television set | each | 6,406 marka | 5,627 marka | 13.8% |
| A bicycle | each | 1,106 marka | 827 marka | 33.7% |
| A doctor's visit | in town | 42.25 marka | 37.51 marka | 12.6% |
| A haircut | each | 3.69 marka | 2.76 marka | 33.7% |
| A day of a labourer | six days the week | 157 marka | 116 marka | 35.3% |
| One marka | in pfen | 1.00 marka | 1.00 marka | 0.0% |
| Postage of a letter | inland | 2.41 marka | 1.78 marka | 35.3% |
| Train fare, Vellmar to Marschau | second class | 35.13 marka | 26.17 marka | 34.3% |
| Omnibus fare within the capital | any distance | 3.44 marka | 3.04 marka | 13.3% |
| A night at a Vellmar hotel | with breakfast | 78.76 marka | 68.93 marka | 14.3% |
Ten years compared
Between the list of 1996 and this list the index moved from 9,378.58 to 11,480.74, a change of 22.4%. The labourer's day moved from 663 marka to 845 marka, or 27.4%. A day's wage bought 177 loaves in 1996 and buys 184 in 2006.
Bank rate at the close of the year: 3.14 per cent. Movement of prices in the year: -0.0%.
The Herald costs 230 pfen the copy, against 188 pfen in 1996.
Authority
Issued under the hand of the Minister of Finance, Martin Mistes, in the chancellorship of Lukas Marsch. 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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