Post #415044 by TikiTres on Thu, Oct 23, 2008 2:05 PM

Wow, that is unbelievable to have the original receipt to what is already a super rare Witco piece. Amazing! The prices are much higher than I would have thought, no wonder the pieces are so rare today. They couldn't have sold many of the bigger pieces at those prices (considering what those prices would have been in today's dollars). The other thing I'm surprised to see is that when adjusted for inflation and compared to recent market prices, most of those items have not appreciated in value.

EDIT- I Googled and found a cool inflation calculator here:

http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi

I entered the sofa price of 788.80 and used the receipt year of 1973 and in 2007 dollars (the calculator doesn't go any higher) it would be 3643.39. That helps put it into perspective, a Witco couch isn't exactly something any... ummm... Joe the Plumber ( :wink: ) could have easily afforded.

[ Edited by: TikiTres 2008-10-23 14:13 ]