Replying to a message of Shawn Highfield to Bob Ackley:

 SH> On Jan 13, 2008 03:50pm, Bob Ackley wrote to Shawn Highfield:

 BA>> Perhaps.  However, buried in this pile of bakelite, vinyl and lacquer
 BA>> (and audio CDs )are two brand spanking new copies of
Kate Smith's
 BA>> 1938 recording of 'God Bless America'

 SH>   You have two copies?  Play one of them. :)  I understand where your
 SH> coming from though I just don't follow.  I have two original copies
 SH> of the white album one never opened and still sealed, the other I
 SH> play.

That's one record I don't have.  Many years ago I was at an auction and there
was a stack of LPs about 3 feet high going to be sold.  I went through part of
it and it was mostly what I consider garbage (Lawrence Welk type stuff, polkas,
etc.) and about halfway down the pile was a White Album - what it was doing
with the rest of that stuff I've no idea.  Anyhow, the bidding for that stack of
stuff exceeded my resources (it went for well over $100, absent that White Album
the whole pile would have brought maybe five bucks).

 BA>> old record store that had closed years before, and I bought all of it
 BA>> memory serves about fifty bucks for four apple crates full of brand
 BA>> new 78s).

 SH>   Great deal to be sure!  I got a box of 78's here from the local
 SH> auction for a nickle.  They are all used, but in their original paper
 SH> wrapping which is rare as most people just piled them I understand. 
 SH> None of them are worth anything as they are mostly country music, but
 SH> they are here and Music and if I'm in the mood for old country I have
 SH> a box of it. :)

Many people just send old records to the landfill.  The assumption that something
isn't worth anything is often incorrect.  The most important criteria is
the condition
of the recording.  Before disposing of any of them check with Record
Finders (www.recordfinders.com), they have literally thousands of 78s in
stock.  Several years
ago they had a 'truckload sale' to move their overstock of 78s.  Record Finders does
take records on consignment and I've sent them a couple of hundred over the years -
didn't realize much for them but at least they found new homes.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+