Helllo there!
New purchase for me today, from a little shop near my home for 5 pounds, with a really great woman called Panela...I talk a lot about this bottle but just she tell me that was founded in a York shop a few years ago.
I found a Victorian sweet catalogue on PDF. This is a little part of it.
How much did sweets cost?
These prices are taken from Terry’s catalogues
Boxes of Chocolate Nougat cost 2/6 per lb
Boxed Chocolate assortments cost 7/6
Bottle of Mixed drops 6d
Bottle of Acid drops 6d
Bottle of Tangerine and orange drops 6d
Bottle of Raspberry drops 6d
Bottle of Pine drops 6d
Bottle of Mint drops 6d
Bottle of Twisted Barley Sugar 6d
Bottle of Very Superior Mixed drops 6d
Yorkshire Cream Toffee (4 pieces) 1d
Box of Peppermint Creams 6d
Pontefract Cakes 3d
3d and 6d bottles of:
Silver Smokers
Floral gums
Voice pellets
Throat pastilles
Silver comfits
Raspberry Noyeau in 1d bars.
These prices are taken from the Harrod’s catalogue of 1895
Barley Sugar per lb 0/6
Small bottles 0/5 ½
Raspberry/ Pineapple/ Pear drops per 1b 0/5
Lozenges per lb 2/0
Peppermint per lb 1/6
Cachous per oz 0/3
Marzipan sweets 2/6
So, about the price...6d. is equal at one modern penny. So, the pre-decimal coins chanced in 1971. So, this Mixed drop can't be more recent of 1971.
If you want, i'll add the rest of the Terry's catalogue, just is a little bit long.
Pictures:
http://imgur.com/a/fnJBH
There are all in one album, i hope that you can see very well the particulars!
Some informations?
Cheers,
Mario