Charles Bock

My grandfather was a pawnbroker, and when I was in first or second grade, my parents opened their own store. I probably learned to count by putting pawn tickets in numerical order in the back room of the shop.

American Writer

Arthur Wing Pinero

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

English Actor

A pawned item might be sold by the pawnbroker if the loan isn't repaid on time.

Pawn Implications

A pawnbroker is different from a bank; they offer loans based on collateral, not credit.

Not a Bank

Pawnbrokers usually charge more interest than banks or formal lenders.

Interest Rates

 where a promising youth is seduced and corrupted by the dangers of urban life. But its social critique cuts far deeper. Raskolnikov rationalizes that his own advancement at the cost of the exploitative pawnbroker’s death would be a net benefit to society.