[78-L] "Value" of 78s

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 10:03 PM 2/12/2010, you wrote:
>Oh, that Syracuse trek....memories.  I filled up the entire bed of a Ford
>F-250 pickup truck with really great stuff from that house, and it was all
>free!  My back aches just thinking about it....
>
>Incidentally, I never sold or traded anything I dragged out of that place.
>I did give away at least 50 Fritz Kreisler dupes though after I culled all
>the duplicate orthos for Credenza playing...
>
>Sean

Before my collection (accumulation) got as big as it is now I hauled 
away a few free loads of records (only once was it 78's) in the bed 
of my pickup truck.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
>Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 10:32 PM
>To: 78-L Mail List
>Subject: Re: [78-L] "Value" of 78s
>
>Nevertheless! (To quote Prof. Irwin Corey)
>
>I wish I had a pound of halvah for everyone who's looked at my collection
>and
>said "You have a fortune here!" If I were to start listing my collection on
>eBay I'd spend a lifetime trying to unload stuff that just isn't worth more
>than a dollar a disc. If I have unique items and I don't have any need for
>them, I've done better trading them to Kurt Nauck than trying to sell them
>at
>record shows or the auction tables at CAPS meetings. A collection that has
>been
>carefully chosen can have pricey items in it and be valuable and insurable,
>but
>a collection can also have meaning to its owner and to nobody else.
>
>Five or six years ago, I bought great classical album sets at something like
>3
>discs for a dollar from a college library that needed the space. Near mint,
>many of them from a Carnegie Collection. A year or so before that, a few
>collectors including at least 2 on this list made treks to Syracuse because
>there was a house full of records, 95% classical, accumulated over a
>lifetime,
>and the house's new owner and Yale University and Kurt Nauck had taken what
>they wanted and we were told to take as much as our shock absorbers could
>handle.
>
>Mmmmm....halvah....
>
>dl