What does the number 10/6 mean on the hat of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland?

Question

Making a Mad Hatter costume.

Answer 1

On the label in the hatband it says "In this style" and the 10/6 is the price. Hatters used to hawk their wares on the street and were noted for their bazaar behavior. In England at the time of Lewis Carroll the pound Sterling was (and is) the central unit of money. Prior to adopting decimal units, the pound was divided into twenty shillings and each shilling was divided into twelve pennies or pence. Amounts of money were written in various ways. The pound was represented, as it still is, by a £ sign, the shilling by a 's' and the penny by a 'd' (for 'denarius', a Roman silver coin which was also used as the name for the English silver penny). So the meaning of £1-10s-6d is fairly obvious. But amounts below a pound were also written 10/6 meaning 10s-6d. An amount such as 10/6 would be pronounced "ten and six" as a more casual form of "ten shillings and sixpence".

Answer 2

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What does the number 10/6 mean on the hat of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland?
Making a Mad Hatter costume.

Answer 3

Mad Hatter Day is the "second silly day" of the year (the first being April Fool's Day) and is celebrated on 10/6 (October 6 in the United States; June 10 in Britain).
Mad Hatter Day is celebrated on 10/6 in honor of the number on the top hat, "some astute observers have noted that the paper in the Mad Hatter's Hat was really an order to make a hat in the style shown, to cost ten shillings sixpence."

Answer 4

10 6 Meaning

Answer 5

It means 10 shillings and six pence. It was the UK currency units pre 1971 when dicimalisation came into effect. The currency units were Pounds, Shillings and Pence. There are 240 pennys (pence) to the Pound or 20 Schillings to the Pound. Once Schilling is 12 pence.

The notation was schillings/pence - ie 10/6 = 10 shillings, 6 pence. More accurately it should be notated thus:

10/- 6 "/-" is the notation for shillings

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

Answer 6

No, well yes. The 10/6 is now celebrated as Mad Hatter Day, but in the story it's a hat size. In fact it says "In this style 10/6"

Answer 7

the number represents 10 shillings and 6pence the old currency
before dollars and cents. the hat cost that much.