[78-L] Chet Baker Photo on E-Bay

[Julian Vein]

Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
> My jaw dropped this morning when I checked the winning bid in a John 
> Tefteller auction for an autographed publicity photo of a young Chet 
> Baker: $1030! When last I looked, the high bid was $440. An E+ copy of 
> OKeh 8772 J. C. Higginbotham and His Six Hicks: Give Me Your Telephone 
> Number/Higginbotham Blues garnered 18 bids and sold for $532! These two 
> original masters were reissued on the HRS label in December 1938 (No. 
> 14) and command the highest price of any HRS reissue! A laminated 
> pressing, it is like having the original. At a record meet last 
> January, a friend bought an E+ copy for $2.00. Without explaining why, 
> I told him he was a very lucky man!
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In England the Parlophone issue is one of the most common jazz 78s 
around! Were the HRS reissues master pressings?

      Julian Vein




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