From the past - Finch Prices August 1979

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thehammer
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As published in Australian Aviculture August 1979
Finches Prices pairs
  • Aberdeen $20
    Aurora $15
    Bengalese (Mannikin) $4
    Blood $15
    Chestnut $5
    Cordon Bleu $25
    Cuban $18
    Cutthroat $10
    Diamond Sparrow $18
    Double-bar $12
    Emblema Picta $25
    Fire $15
    Goldfinch $5
    Gouldian, black-headed $20
    Gouldian, red-headed $25
    Gouldian, yellow-headed $30
    Green finch $5
    Green Singer $130
    Jacarini $20
    Java, Blue $5
    Java, White $6
    Java, Fawn $12
    Longtailed, (blackheart) $15
    Longtailed, (hecks) $15
    Masked $15
    Masked, white-eared $30
    Melba $25
    Nun, black-headed $18
    Nun, silver-headed $18
    Nun, tri-coloured $20
    Orange-breasted waxbill $18
    Parson $25
    Pictorella $15
    Plumhead $15
    Parrot finch, blue-faced $40
    Parrot finch, red-faced $100
    Redbrow waxbill $10
    St. Helena $25
    Silverbill $15
    Spice $5
    Star $12
    Star, yellow-faced $18
    Strawberry, Chinese $80
    Weaver, Comoro $60
    Weaver, Madagascar $40
    Yellow Rump $20
    Zebra, normal $1
    Zebra, Pied $3
    Zebra other colour $3
    Zebra, black-faced $10
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TheFinchMan101
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Sooooooooooooooo cheap :o
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Yes and wages were a lot less too. So, much as it looks good, everything is relative.
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Wow .
Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
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amalan11
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I think some are quite expensive, I recal in 1981 I could buy a paddle pop for 20c,...so a sosiety/bengalise was worth 20 paddle pops???
today I guess it would be about 6 paddlepops per bengalise
Zebs are about the same 5 pp then and now I think :lol:
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nathan morley

Wow that was so cheap lucky people living then.
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Nrg800
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$10 back then is worth $30 now... But still really cheap
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The red face parroties have gone backwards.$100 Thats alot of paddle pops,even in todays value :lol:
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nathan morley

Yeah I know.
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west finch
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nathan morley wrote:Wow that was so cheap lucky people living then.
Yes Nathan and were still alive today some how :lol:
Work smarter not harder !
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