[78-L] Stamps Quartet on Victor Sells for $11,322.98!

[Malcolm - Venerable Music]

Hey Mike - I referred to it as a Stamps Quartet record to help prove the 
point. It kinda rolls off the tongue you know.
If I were to refer to it as V.O. Stamps duet, it would indeed seem more rare 
an intriguing as a record & you might be a little more tempted to pony up 
the $999 (but shipping is free) to take this rare treasure home? But then I 
would feel partially responsible when you received it and were disappointed 
because it sounded an awful lot like a Stamps Quartet record. I didn't want 
that weighing on my shoulders you know.

To me the best part of this listing is the way the seller set's up the 
climax of him finding the record! You know, when he was just a kid he heard 
about this mythical Stamps Quartet record (sorry Mike - ha!) and spent the 
next 12 years of his life searching through dusty old flea markets and junk 
shops just to finally find this record in VG condition! What an exciting 
moment that must have been - and now he offers it to you for the very 
reasonable price of $999. I mean this record represents a 12 year search so 
$999 is a bargain - not even considering that someone else set the $11,000 
precedent at a local auction. Must have been 2 collectors going head to 
head? Or maybe the auctioneer started at $12,000 and came down a bit to get 
the first bid (plus the buyers premium you know).

There's just so much meat for my imagination in this description!
Malcolm

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Stamps Quartet on Victor Sells for $11,322.98!


> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>> Why does the seller call this a "stock copy"?
>
> Maybe all he knows is the 45 era where some non-hit records are more
> common in DJ copies than in regular stock copies, such as the first
> American Beatles record on Decca.
>
> What I have been trying to figure out is why Mal called this a Stamps
> Quartet record?  It's a duet.  Just because there are two sides . . .
>
> Mike (2 + 2 = 4?) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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