A couple of things brought prices to my attention recently. The first was a London Library book, published in 1840 (more anon), but I don't know when this extract from the rules was pasted in:
Needless to say, you won't get away with an annual subscription of £3.15 (a translation I offer for those of my readers who didn't recognise the currency), nor can you go dancing for the afternoon at the Hammersmith Palais de Danse for "half a crown" or 12.5 pence, as this advertisement at the tube station suggests!
Finally, Price's was the name of my school, famous for men's hockey and its unusual crest, a lion rampant but facing back over its shoulder, not forward. Mr Cornflower will remember it well.
Circumspicio.
Posted by: Cornflower | Thursday, 26 July 2007 at 10:11 PM
The Heraldic term for your lion looking over its shoulder is apparently "Regardant". I guess your school's lion is both rampant and regardant and in colour purpure.
Cat Passant Sable in Chief (or something like that!)
Posted by: Peter the flautist | Thursday, 26 July 2007 at 09:40 PM