see in the 1940s for some reason eggs were very very very hard to come by. So, believe it or not, eggs were very expensive. I was born in 1931 and remember looking at people who ate eggs and thinking rich people! They cost about 150-200 dollars a dozen. You were not able to find them in normal stores.
In 1948, eggs cost around two shillings and four pence. The price would have been written as "2s/4d" and is roughly the equivalent of 12 pence.
a billioned dollors
20$
A dozen eggs in 1912 cost only $0.40 for one dozen
33pence
1.50
5
$0.12
about 1.60 for a dozen
4.99
In 1970 a dozen of fresh eggs cost only 62 cents. Therefore, six fresh eggs would have only cost 31 cents in 1970.
Eggs are not sold by the box, but the dozen and in California I am paying 4.99 a dozen.
In 1989 the cost of a dozen eggs was about 96 cents. The price of that item has approximately doubled in the intervening years.
The cost of a dozen eggs in 1990 was about one dollar. A loaf of bread was about 1.57 and milk was around 1.42.
a dozen eggs cost 20 cents in the 1970'