[TheForge] Fw: Ancient metallurgy - US Bicentennial Bloom

[JOHN CHOBRDA]

Can you also imagine how LOW and stable a workman's wages were. Would any of
us want to earn the wages and live like our great grandfathers did, not I

John C.

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Can you imagine how low and stable the inflation rate must have been 
back when they named "ten penny" nails etc. to have a name for a 
product - related to cost, and have it remembered and stick as the name 
of that product. I'll bet the Feds' Alan Greenspan is glad that we 
didnt do our "ax project" very often.

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From: Bruce Freeman <FREEMAB at pt.fdah.com>
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Sent: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:48:45 -0500
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Fw: Ancient metallurgy - US Bicentennial Bloom

I guess that makes them million-penny nails!

>>> stephen.viola at gmail.com 11/3/2005 10:33:12 AM >>>
Hehe well I said it was a quick calculation.. but you are right those
nailheads must be about $50000 a pop! I wouldn't want to build a very
big house using those nails :o)

Stephen

On 11/2/05, mrscherm at aol.com <mrscherm at aol.com> wrote:

> I misspoke, as I now recall, we also made five or six nails from the
> shards that fell off the bloom. The cost of those nails would be right
> up there.


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