Enclosure III: Joseph Anthony’s Table of Prices
Enclosure III
Joseph Anthony’s Table of Prices
| Dried Fish. | The average of 1770 to 1775 Not dumb’d Fish | in 1789 to 1790 | |||||
| Best Cod | ⅌ 112 | 18 /to | 25/L.M. | 16/ | L.Money | ||
| 2nd. quality | 14/ to | 15/ | 12/ | @ 13/ | |||
| 3rd. do. if any such | 12/ @ | 13/ | 10/ | @ 11/ | |||
| 4th. do if any such Scale Fish. | 10/ @ | 11/ | 8/ | @ 9/ | |||
| Smoked Salmon | 2/6 @ | 7/b. Cask. | ditto | ||||
| Pickled Fish. | |||||||
| + | Worst Mackarel ⅌ bbl of 30 to 32 Gs. contg 224. ⅌ fish | 15/ | 20/ | ||||
| + | middling do | ⅌ do | 20/ | 30/ | |||
| + | best do | ⅌ do | 30/ | 42/ | |||
| + | Manhaden | ⅌ do | 12/ | 8/ | |||
| + | Alewives | ⅌ do | 15/ | 20/ | |||
| + | Pickled Cod | ⅌ do | 25/ | 20/ | |||
| Pilchards | ⅌ do | none | |||||
| + | Salmon | ⅌ do | 45/ | 40/ | |||
| Herrings Qu: | ⅌ do | 15/ | 20/ | ||||
| + | Shad | ⅌ do | 20/ | 25/ | |||
| Oils vizt. | |||||||
| Spermaceti Oil | 50/ @ | 60/ | 90/ | @ 110/ | |||
| Whale Oil Northern best | 40/ @ | 45/ | |||||
| Train Oil Southern or Brazil | Not known then | 40/ | a 45/ | ||||
| Blubber | 18/ | 20/ | |||||
| Liver Oil (Tanners) | 35/ | 42/ | |||||
| Spermaceti | 2/ @ | 2/1 | 3/ | 2 | |||
| Headmatter | £30 to £35 ⅌ Ton | £45 @ £55 | |||||
| Whale Bone Short & Long | 2/6 @ | 6/ | 10d. | @ 2/ | |||
- What does a bbl of pickled fish usually weigh, exclusive of the Cask[?] About 2 Cwt.
- What does a bble of do. usually gauge[?] 30 @ 32 Gallons.
MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 69: 12000–2); at head of text: “(N.B. 6/ ⅌ dollar”; in clerk’s hand; endorsed: “Mr. Joseph Anthony Price Currt.”
This may have been accompanied by another document giving “Prices in London August 27, 1790,” as follows:
| Price | Duty | |||
| “Whalefins, Greenland | per Ton | £150–0–0 |  |
97–18–0 |
| South fishery | 100–0–0 | |||
| Whaleoil, Greenland | £22 to 23 | * | ditto | |
| South Fishery | £16 to 17 | * | ditto | |
| Spermaceti Oil, Brown | £44 to 45 | ditto | ||
| White | £52 to 54 | ditto | ||
| Seal oil, brown | £21 to 22 | * | ditto | |
| white | 25 to 26 | * | ditto | |
| Cod oil | 21 to 22 | * | ditto |