The Boot and Shoe Trades in London and Paris in the Long Eighteenth Century

Table 4.5 - Prices at Wimpory, boot and shoe maker in Coventry Street,
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0 0
00
c.a. 1750
immediately six months one year
£ s d £ s d
Root Hussar 2 4 0 2 8 0
Jockey 2 6 0 2 10 0
Military 2 10 0 2 14 0
Dressshoes 0 13 6 0 14 6
Half dress wkn 0 13 0 0 14 0
Source: BM, Prints and Drawings Collection, Heal Collection 18.142.
'0 00 0
. . . h
year
£ s d
2 10 0
2 12 0
2 16 0
o 15 0
0 14 6
Peal and Co., still bespoke producers in the 1 850s, had an average number of
600 customers.M Sixty per cent of them (reaching ninety per cent in 1847) did
not settk their account within the year (fig. 4.1). The expansion of business
during the 1 840s with new customers was associated further credit.65
Table 4.1 - Peal & Co. - Customers and their debts, 1840-1852
Customers
in debt
Costumers
Source: LMA, Peal & Co. Manuscripts, 'Customer Book', 1837-43, 1844-45, 1846-47, 1849-52.
On average each customer was spending £4. lOs. in one year with a maximum of35 and a
minimum ofjust 2s. for repair. LMA, B Pel: Peal & Co. Manuscripts, 'Customer Book', 1837-
43, 1844-45, 1846-47, 1849-52.
65 /bid, 'Weekly Statements', 185 1-2 and 'Profits and Loss Accounts', 1841.
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