Check this vintage ad out...

[scubadada]

Hi @Bigbella

Do you know the year? Complete deluxe outfit for $170

 

[lowwall]

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Oh, Sears, you've fallen so very far . . .

"Tank holds enough air for one hour of diving. Shipped filled with air."

Yikes.

 

[Bigbella]

Hi @Bigbella

Do you know the year? Complete deluxe outfit for $170

The best that I could do, was the early 1960s . . .

 

[lowwall]

Hi @Bigbella

Do you know the year? Complete deluxe outfit for $170

My guess is late '50s.

@David Wilson can probably pin it down within a year or two by the masks and fins.

 

[lowwall]

Here's the camera (from Mako Shark - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopedia )

 

[scubadada]

The best that I could do, was the early 1960s . . .

So $170 in 1962 would be about $1,465 dollars today. 1958 would be more like $1532.

 

[Bigbella]

My guess is late '50s.

@David Wilson can probably pin it down within a year or two by the masks and fins.

Yeah, but those fins and masks were also available when I was a kid -- and I'm not that old . . .

 

[Bigbella]

So $170 in 1962 would be about $1,465 dollars today.

Even more on eBay, in "mint" condition, heh, heh, heh . . .

I've seen period regulators go for thirty -- fifty times their original prices . . .

 

[Bigbella]

Hey, Tampax saves the day -- even for a cascading nosebleed, from a reverse block. Sadly, I know that one from bitter, past experience.

Looks like the lovely woman is sporting a Cyklon 300 . . .

 

[The Chairman]

"Tank holds enough air for one hour of diving. Shipped filled with air."

Yikes.

It was all trucked back then.