Cost of Any Article + 

Besides the usual elements which contribute to constitute the price of anything, there exists another which varies greatly in different articles. It is this⁠— + 

The cost and difficulty of verifying the fact that the article is exactly what it professes to be. + 

This is in some cases very small; but in many instances it is scarcely possible for the purchaser to verify the genuineness of certain articles. In these cases the public pay a larger price than they otherwise would do to those tradesmen whose character and integrity are well established. + 