[78-L] 78 collectors

[Erwin Kluwer]

Kurt Nauck only has approx around 1000 different  customers each auction...
I know a lot of collectors whe never by on Ebay, Naucks, etc... just
fleamarkets, and other local events...


My wild gues: between 3000- 8000 worldwide....

Erwin


On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Sammy Jones <sjones69 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I've been thinking about this recently: how many 78 rpm record collectors
> are there in the U.S., North America, the rest of the world?  Maybe I'm a
> rare case, but I've only ever met one other 78 collector in my life
> (granted
> my age is probably a little under the average)!
>
> There was a time (before I discovered 78-L) that I thought I pretty much
> must be the only one in the world, but then there are lots of people making
> a living on 78 record auctions and restorations, and eBay does a swift
> business.  There must be enough people to support all this.
>
> Has anyone ever done an estimate?  Are there merely hundreds of us, or is
> it
> conceivable that our numbers could reach past a few thousand?
>
> Sammy Jones (who's been collecting since about 1996, and whose first 78s
> were Frank Crumit singing "Margie" on Columbia and somebody singing "I'm
> Just a Vagabond Lover" on Velvet Tone)
>
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