[78-L] Price's Price

[Malcolm Smith]

I started collecting records in New York in the early fifties and the  
typical price was 2 dollars for single sided records and 4 dollars  
for double sided records. This was for the records one found in 'the  
racks'! A typical record that I bought in those days cost between 30  
dollars and 125 dollars. I didn't buy a lot of records. There were  
some that went much higher (bought by other collectors). One vocal  
record sold at that time brought 1,700 dollars and another I'm  
familiar with was an unpublished Nordica which I wrote about before.  
It brought 1,300 dollars. Again, these are records I'm familiar with  
and the prices on auction lists (nearly all from abroad). I collected  
classical vocal records and an occasional jazz record that I  
encountered though I was not looking for them and did not receive  
lists from dealers listing them. I do remember being offered an  
unpublished Bessie Smith for 250 dollars.

The guides I remember seeing in those days were pure fiction.

Malcolm Smith.



On Jul 26, 2009, at 6:43 AM, 78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com wrote:

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