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Title: Flower Girl, 1971 [Go to resource]
Description: The girl with the Sophia Loren style hat on the lid is presumably meant to be Italian, the barrows on the side have the motto "Italia Roma", which makes the label with "12 ½ p a bunch" on seem rather odd. The price also seems strangely specific. However, 1971 - the year in which this tin was made - is the year in which Britain changed to a decimal system of currency. 12 ½ p was the equivalent of 2/6d in the old currency. The price on the label in the barrow is clearly making an allusion to these changes, which took place on the 15 February that year. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Publisher: Huntley & Palmers Rights holder: Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) Subjects: natural science
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flowerTemporal: start=1971-01-01; end=1971-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Creator: Huntley, Boorne & Stevens Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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