Yes, while the last time I checked, or dealt with guineas and poounds, the guinea was about three pounds. It is still about the same in Canada. Stephen On May 28, 2009, at 6:35 PM, Tuck wrote: > All, > > I knew about guineas when living in England, but really learned about > them when I made a sculpture and a fellow wanted to buy it.He asked > how much, and I said "forty." He said fine, got out a check book, and > then asked "is that pounds or guineas?" Thinking quickly I replied > guineas, and made two pounds which I wouldn't have had otherwise. > > But I was never quite clear where the dividing line between pound > objects and guinea objects lay, exactly. > > > Tuck > On May 28, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Mike Clouston wrote: > >> Interesting page here >> http://copywriting.typepad.co.uk/copywriting/2008/08/that-will- >> be-25.html >> >> When I came out of the Royal Navy in 1966 my very first job was as a >> driver/salesman for an electrical and white goods retailer. They >> had a >> habit of pricing everything in guineas e.g. a TV set priced at 49½ >> guineas. Customers might have been fooled into thinking it cost lest >> than 50 GBP when in fact it cost 51 pounds 19 shillings and 6 pence. >> Those were the days :-) >> -- >> Kind regards >> Mike Clouston >> _______________________________________ >> Orcadia Group Photo Album >> http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- >> request@rootsweb.com >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message > > > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >