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I know no such thing, Simon. And what you are saying now is very different to what you said in post #13 in this thread when you said:
"I have no difficulty in answering your question."
Now you tell me it's unanswerable!!!!
Well Pcdunn didn't seem to have much difficulty answering it. In your previous post you were suggesting I answer my own question, so you must have thought it was answerable.
As it happens, I think the answer is very simple and obvious. But I was hoping for your answer Simon because you posted, "accepting a 9d pawn ticket from Emily Burrell for an unseen flannel shirt which may or may not have fitted John Kelly, and which, with interest and the pawn ticket fee, would have cost her 10½d to find out, does not make a great deal of sense, fiscal or otherwise". I wanted to know - and would still like to know - if you think it would make fiscal sense if the flannel shirt was worth more than 10½d. It strikes me as a reasonable question which is perfectly capable of being answered.
I know that during the depression years, here in Aus, pawn tickets became a means of trade. At least in some communities. My 5d ticket on my 2s item for your 6d item.
Why, because I now realize I'll never get together the 6d to redeem it. I only took the minimum pawn thinking it'd be less interest. But if someone doesn't redeem it the winner is the Pawn shop.
G U T
There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.
Perhaps I should have added, "by your requirements it is unanswerable."
I haven't included any requirements, Simon. It's a simple, standalone, question.
I fear you are making the classic mistake made by witnesses under cross-examination when they try to anticipate where a particular line of questioning is going rather than focusing on just answering the question they are being asked.
Can you not just answer the question without worrying about what I'm trying to establish?
I'm not really sure what problem you are having with it - and despite your earlier denial you clearly are having difficulty - but if it makes it easier I'll amend my question for you to this:
Would it have made fiscal sense if the flannel shirt was worth more than 10½d and Eddowes and/or Kelly knew this?
The question of the pawn tickets are explored in pages 501-507 of Simon's book.
Just to note that I have read Simon's book (and indeed his point about Eddowes' acceptance of the pawn ticket not making fiscal sense is made in that book) but he does not consider the issue of whether the flannel shirt might have been worth more than 10½d, hence my question in this thread, for which I have yet to receive an answer.
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