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

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <rbratcherjr at yahoo.com>
> Plus digging for records is usually loads of fun!! 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.
>
I would guess that 99.9 per cent of my "half-vast shellac archive" are
worth less than $1 each...some A LOT less...?!  However, I apparently
suffer from Asperger's Syndrome...a form of autism that wasn't identified
when I was born in 1942;thus I tend to be obsessive-compulsive in
things (including 78 accumulation...?!).

I estimate my "collection" to currently be around 67,000 (of which
c. 1,000 are duplicates).If there wre 3,350,000 78's issued in total,
I own 2 per cent of them; however, that may be an OVERestimate?
If only 1,675,000 78's were issued...I own FOUR per cent of that
total...?!

Steven C. Barr