Wireless Set 19 collectors - eat your hearts out

[Grant Bowker]

I recently bought a copy of the 19 set Working Instructions on EBay. There was a price list for WS19 parts tucked inside the book that looks as if was probably created not too long post-war as surplus units were being cleared.
Scans are attached: (on page 1, the text lost in the fold line reads "TELEGRAPH KEY ASSEMBLY".
Before you go out and commit suicide over the way prices have risen, consider how the cost of other things has risen over the same time, a loaf of bread, a newspaper, a pair of shoes....