Obviously other pages in this section look specifically at English purchases. However, the Museum is an ethnographic and archaeological museum with global collections, and most years the majority of purchases would be of material from outside the UK. This page looks at a sample year, 1912, to see how the English and other purchases look as a total.
All other objects purchased by PRM in 1912 for which price is unknown are excluded.
A known total of £6,034.89 was spent on objects (at 2006 equivalent prices) in 1912. This is the minimum, the total is unknown because some costs were unrecorded. Of this figure £241.50 was definitely spent on English objects [4% of total]. £5,793.39 was spent on objects from elsewhere (including some English objects whose costs cannot be separated) [95.9% of total].
From this it might be concluded that around 5 per cent of the 1912 purchase budget was spent on English objects.
|
Accession number |
Who purchased from? |
What price paid? |
2006 equivalent price £ * |
Part of purchase English? |
|
1912.57.1-37 |
Stevens Auction Rooms |
2.9.0 |
166.67 |
Yes [total cost including English] |
|
1912.58.1-4 |
Stevens Auction Rooms |
0.12.6 |
42.52 |
No |
|
1912.59.1-6 |
Stevens Auction Rooms |
0.3.0 |
10.20 |
No |
|
1912.60.1 |
F.H. Drew |
2.0.0 |
136.06 |
No |
|
1912.61.1-14 |
Frank Morey |
4.10.0 |
306.13 |
No |
|
1912.62.1 |
George A. Herbert |
0.4.0 |
13.61 |
No |
|
1912.63.1-2 |
Newman |
0.10.0 |
34.01 |
No |
|
1912.64.1 |
Duncan McLellan via Angus Graham |
0.9.0 |
30.61 |
No |
|
1912.66.34-51 |
S.G. Hewlett |
21.10.0 |
1,462.60 |
Yes [total cost including English] |
|
1912.67.9 |
S.G. Hewlett |
0.2.6 |
8.50 |
No |
|
1912.67.10 |
S.G. Hewlett |
0.1.0 |
3.40 |
No |
|
1912.68.1 |
J. Bateman |
0.10.0 |
34.01 |
No |
|
1912.70.1-10 |
John H. Weeks |
3.7.6 |
229.59 |
No |
|
1912.72.1-2 |
Stevens Auction Rooms |
0.3.6 |
11.90 |
No |
|
1912.73.3-55 |
S.G. Hewlett |
5.3.6 |
352.04 |
Yes [total cost including English] |
|
1912.74.1-9 |
Cecil Vincent Goddard |
0.11.0 |
37.42 |
No |
|
1912.75.1 |
Cecil Vincent Goddard |
0.6.0 |
20.41 |
No |
|
1912.76.1-3 |
Cecil Vincent Goddard |
0.9.0 |
30.61 |
No |
|
1912.78.1 |
Roy Downing |
1.0.0 |
68.03 |
No |
|
1912.78.2 |
Roy Downing |
0.7.6 |
25.51 |
No |
|
1912.79.1-5 |
M. Hammer possibly Marius Hammer |
3.12.2 |
245.47 |
No |
|
1912.80.1 |
Archibald Graham |
0.5.0 |
17.01 |
No |
|
1912.81.1-4 |
Miss K.M. Reynolds |
0.11.6 |
39.12 |
No |
|
1912.82.1-7 |
Edwin Watts |
2.0.0 |
136.06 |
No |
|
1912.83.2-9 |
William Downing Webster |
0.18.6 |
62.6 |
Yes, cost amended to take account |
|
1912.84.1-2 |
Cookson |
0.9.0 |
30.61 |
No |
|
1912.85.1 - ? |
Stevens Auction Rooms |
0.19.0 |
64.63 |
No |
|
1912.86.1-11 |
Albert Henry Baldwin of A.H. Baldwin & Sons |
5.14.6 |
389.46 |
Yes [total cost including English] |
|
1912.87.1-7 |
Brown and Brown |
0.14.8 [incl carriage] |
49.89 |
No |
|
1912.88.1-8 |
Richard Raikes Bromage |
0.10.0 |
34.01 |
No |
|
1912.89.1-225 |
Francis Llewellyn Griffith |
25.0.0 |
1,700.70 |
No |
|
Total |
|
|
5,793.39 |
|
* Purchasing power relatively from year object was purchased until 2006 using the retail price index. Information provided by http://www.measuringworth.com/ppoweruk/. On that site is a discussion of the relative values etc used in the calculations. I have used the standard calculator. Like is being compared to like