Hello Bob.

29 May 03 08:24, you wrote to me:


 RT>>>> YOUCH !! $300 for a LP, all the more reason to look after them
 RT>>>> carefully.  

 BA>>> The most I've paid for a single record (not a record set) was
 BA>>> $15. I'd been looking for the d*mn thing for over 25 years and
 BA>>> finally located a copy (1957, 'The Creature' by Buchanan &
 BA>>> Ancell - which I'm sure no one around here ever heard of).

 RT>> Still a little heavy for vinyl these days, but if it is something
 RT>> you have  been looking for for yonks, then it is worth it.

 BA> Actually I picked it up about 15 years ago.

Lucky you. 

 BA>>> Found a couple of neat LP's at a local estate sale.  Original
 BA>>> Chancellor (Philadelphia label) issues of the first LP by Fabian
 BA>>> and the first LP by Frankie Avalon.  Also a copy of the original
 BA>>> 1952 Columbia 78rpm release of "I Saw Mommy Kissing
Santa Claus"
 BA>>> by Jimmy Boyd.  I suspect they're worth quite a bit more than
 BA>>> what I paid for them (I got all of the records - LP's, 45's and
 BA>>> 78's - being sold for $5).

 RT>> Where am I when such thing happen. 

 BA> Estate sales and auctions, and sometimes garage sales, are probably
 BA> the best places to get this stuff at reasonable prices. Unless, of
 BA> course, there's somebody else there that's bidding against you. At one
 BA> local auction I was bidding on 3 Elvis Presley LP's against some girl.
 BA> As the bidding got up around $80 I suddenly realized that (a) I *had*
 BA> two of them already and that $80 was an awful lot of money for the
 BA> *one* additional record.  I dropped out and let her have it. Some
 BA> years ago the same auctioneer conducted two auctions a week and about
 BA> 2 miles apart.  At the first one I picked up a box of Edison 78 rpm
 BA> (actually 80 rpm) records (they're about 1/4" thick) for $30.  At the
 BA> second one a small box of what appeared to be ordinary 78 rpm records
 BA> went for $105 when I got out at $100. At yet another auction there was
 BA> a stack of LP's that was about four feet high.  It was almost entirely
 BA> junk, but way down near the bottom of the stack was a copy of the
 BA> Beatles' White Album.  Unfortunately several somebodies besides me
 BA> also noticed it and instead of selling for less than $20 that stack
 BA> went for a couple of hundred.


You are indeed fortunate to have the time to attend such auctions, I 
sometimes manage to ride past while one is in progress, but work does not 
allow me the time to attend. 

Russell

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