Lyle,

Did you miss my posting on "Price History and Research" on HISTARCH 3 August
2010?  I listed several sources with compiled prices.  That is a pretty big
wheel you are proposing to recreate.

Peace,
George

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> With the usual apologies for cross-posting, the search for COMPILED lists
> of prices of goods and commodities produced a flood of pointers toward the
> sources of raw data but nothing that anyone mentioned relating to data
> already compiled.
>
> Going outside the archaeological box, there may be folks in the economic
> history venues who have done so, but it's early days yet as even they point
> me to sources rather than compilations. As far as farm equipment goes, even
> the manufacturer's archivists (where they exist) wish they had such a list
> of their own products. For instance, Sears tossed all of their info on their
> kit houses, this being done by an earlier archivist idiot to the chagrin of
> the later non-idiots who have been trying to recompile the info.
>
> Bottom line is that if anyone is interested, and if I live long enough to
> get the data compiled, then I will revisit the lists and have it available
> as it seems to me that pricing is a rather valuable component of contextual
> exploration and meandering.
>
> Lyle Browning, RPA
>