Why is there a 10/6 card in the mad hatters hat/ what is the significance?

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Why is there a 10/6 card in the mad hatters hat/ what is the significance?

Answer 1

In.the book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the card says, "In this style 10/6".



It is essentially a price tag. It means that you can buy a hat like that for ten shillings and sixpence. (Follow the Related Link below for a Tenniel illustration of the Hatter.)



In the 1951 Disney version, it just says "10/6". (Follow the Related Link to see the Disney version of the Mad Hatter.)



"10/6" means "ten shillings and six pence" and would usually be said as "ten and six".



Before British money was decimalised in 1971, there were 240 pennies in a pound, which is the same as 20 shillings; and 12 pennies in a shilling. (To find out more about the (absurdly complicated) old system of British currency, follow the related link below.)

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/moneyold.htm

Answer 2

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That was the price of the hat - ten shillings and sixpence. Hatters, by the way, often were mad because the felt was treated with mercury, which rapidly addled their brains. Wearing a price tag on a hat was one indication of erratic behaviour in Lewis Carroll's lovely tale.

Answer 5

It's a price tag for 10 shillings and 6 pence. Google pre-decimal British money if you need to know what this means.



In the 19th century, hatters used mercury to soften fur and wool, in order to make felt for hats. As I'm sure you know, mercury has some unfortunate effects on the nervous system, leading to 'hatters shakes' and other physical and mental problems, hence 'Mad Hatter'.

Answer 6

Because Lewis Carrolls birthday is on the 10th of June. Add 10 and six, and you get 16, the sum of the first 4 odd numbers, 1+3+5+7=16 1+6+7, add the seven, to the sixteen, and we come up with the mystical 23, which takes us nicely into the Law of Fives, 2+3=5 The most accurate, and fnordish method of exploring cognitive bias, and underlining the Correlation = Causation fallacy, an inconsistancy in our mapping of spacetime, that quantum mechanics almost sprang up to explore.

So instead of a linear timline, punctuated by events, 1 ------- 2 -------- 3 -------- 4 -----------5,

we get a much more complex, and variable model. a five ponted star, in fact, where each event is directly and connected to, and dependent upon the other four points. Anyway, to answer the Question, I lied about Carrols birthday, made up all that other bollocks too, so feel free to disregard. The Ticket, as you may have already asscertained, means Ten Shillings, and Sixpence in old Money. (Half a guinea) or about forty quid today,

Answer 7

The hat costs 10 shillings and 6 pence. However, in the book, the Mad Hatter tells Alice that it is the hat size.

Answer 8

The card or label on the Hatter's hat reads "In this style 10/6". "10/6" means ten shillings and six pence (or a half guinea), the price of the hat in pre-decimalised British money and acts as a visual indication of the hatter's trade. (There were 21 shillings to the guinea, 20 shillings to the pound and 12 pennies to a shilling ... thus 10/6 = £0.525.) With inflation, £0.525 in 1865 would be worth about £40.55 in 2002.

Answer 9

cost ten shillings sixpence. Now it means mad hatter day.

Answer 10

It's the price tag, as written in England, at the time the book was originally written, some 150 years ago.