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How would you like Santa to deliver this order for Christmas? John Boa was a noted trap shooter as well as an Ithaca salesman. A question for you who are able-a Sousa Grade double with all the options cost about $621 in June of 1930. What is that in todays dollars? 
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Depends:
Current data is only available till 2008. In 2008, $621.00 from 1930 is worth:
$8,006.18 using the Consumer Price Index
$6,593.71 using the GDP deflator
$17,325.49 using the value of consumer bundle
$25,059.69 using the unskilled wage
$39,778.12 using the nominal GDP per capita
$98,334.53 using the relative share of GDP
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The 4E single with a compensator would be a bit of a bummer, to me. Most folks didn't have 600 pennies in 1930.
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Ted
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Look at the 7E NID with all goodies, only 318 bucks.
As for the Sousa Grade, another cost comparison is 20 dollar gold pieces. 31 would close the deal in 1930. Thats 28.5 oz gold, at $1113 per oz, or $31720.
The CPI value noted above, seems a better fit, when compared to similar guns being made in USA today.
Thanks Walt, for sharing a fascinating piece of history.
Regards
GKT
Texas Declaration of Independence 1836 -The Indictment against the dictatorship, Para.16:"It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments."
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John dosen't appear to have much use for double trigger, extractor guns! Was this order just before the 1930 GAH?
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The last Sousa double sold that I am aware was a cased pair for about $100000.
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Interesting that the only non-12ga is a field .410 for 25 and change...
Double guns and English Setters
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Ted, I have a lot of correspondence between Lou Smith and Col. Cutts as they tried to figure out a way to fit a compensator on a NID. They were not successful but during the process, a compensator was fitted to a Grade 7E Knickerbocker. I guess trying to see if there was any advantage to doing so.
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I think Researcher is correct on the Grand order. Tipp City (Tippecanoe City) is just north of the old Grand Homegrounds.
And yes Mr Snyder that would make one heck of a Christmas!
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I should have asked, anyone have one of these guns?
Researcher, Ithaca NIDs with all the options EXCEPT single selective trigger are, in my experience, rather scarce. I have one and a very tenuous thread to another, a 5E. My gun has had the auto safety bar removed. I suspect these guns would have been of interest to live pigeon shooters who didn't want to miss a bird because of a single trigger malfunction. What's your guess?
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