[78-L] Why I love collecting 78's

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Apr 4 12:23:03 PDT 2011


On 4/4/2011 3:20 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> On 4/4/2011 10:15 AM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>> Also the thrill of buying a
>> record very cheap thats worth quite a bit of money (on the collectors market)
>> when you got it. Like when I paid $6 at a record collector show for RCA LSC-1817
>> (Offenbach Gaitie Parisienne by Author Fiedler&   the Bosten Pops) that was worth
>> about $300&   it's now worth around $500 last time I checked. It was near mint
>> condition too.
>
> This was a big selling record and not uncommon.  But I think the big
> bucks from the vinylphooles is only for -1S/-1S copies.  Check yours.
> It probably is something like -16S/-12S.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>

Isn't this the short-lived stereo issue of the 1954 recording, replaced fairly 
soon by the remake on LSC 2267?

dl



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