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