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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>An interesting comparison:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>1959: <em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>The
Church Bells of Kent </span></font></i></em>selling in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
 w:st="on">Canterbury</st1:place></st1:City> for 50/- (£2.50)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>c.1970?): Richard Offen buys one for £25</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>2008: One was offered for £250 (and that's cheap)!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I believe it cost 12/6 when first published in 1887. That's
62.5p. What a Jubilee present!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>DLC<font color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>

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12.0pt;font-family:Optima;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Optima><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Optima;color:black'>I was 1969 when I purchased my copy of
Church Bells of Kent.   In the same year I purchased a near pristine copy of
North’s Church Bells of Leicestershire for 6 (old) pence.   I spied it in
a box of books at a jumble sale!   CJP eat your heart out!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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12.0pt;font-family:Optima;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Optima><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Optima;color:black'>R<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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