s. d. per oz. s. d.
1 oz. of prime seasoned beaver 8 6[4] .. 8 6
Journeyman’s wages for making[5] 3 6
Dyeing 0 8
Stiffening, finishing, and picking 1 8
Cost of lining, finding, band, and box 2 6
Sewing in of ditto 0 6
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£1 2 10½
Footnote 4:
No hat can be good, or well covered, with less than one ounce of prime
beaver; and, small as the quantity is, there was a time when
journeymen makers (catching the custom of their betters, and by way of
tythe) thought it no sin to appropriate a part of this material to
their _own use_; but, for the credit of the _trade_ be it said, the
practice is long since abolished, and a man attempting it at the
present day would be scouted from the factory where he worked, by
every honest journeyman therein.
Footnote 5:
The average week’s work of a _maker_ is about ten hats; that of a
_finisher_, from five to six dozen.
Such is the cost of materials and labour at the present period; it is
true that the above scale is drawn from “credit prices;” but let every
part of a manufacturing concern be carried on for money only, which is
rarely the case, still the deduction from the _whole_ cannot be more
than 7½ per cent. All substitutes for the above _materials_ are
decidedly condemned; nor can their _quantities_, as here stated, be
lessened, without injury to the remainder. Here then is sufficient
evidence that a fine hat must, under the most favourable circumstances,
stand the manufacturer in upwards of twenty-one shillings, yet many
_assume_ a capability of _retailing_ such an article at less even than
the charge of manufacture.
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_A General List of_ Lloyd’s _Fashionable Hats, invented, manufactured,
and sold by him, at his Warehouse, 92, Newgate-Street, London._
The John Bull │ The Bang-up
The Wellington │ The Jolliffe
The Tandem │ Clericus
The Tally-Ho │ The Bon-Ton
The Shallow │ The Baronet
The Coburg │ The Four-in-Hand
The Marquis │ A Bit of Blood
The Eccentric │ The Baron
The Regent │ A Noble Lord
The Kent │ The New Dash
The Cumberland │ A Paris Beau
The Esquire │ The Brutus
The Vis-a-Vis │ The Exquisite
The Petersham │ The Irresistible
The Tilbury │ The Pic Nic
The Count │ The Viscount
The Medium │ And the Dandy.