[78-L] How do we advise people on how to dispose ofaccumulations like this? + Our St Louis dealer is back

Sun Jan 8 15:51:55 PST 2012

Hey Robert - You're still young and have a long time to go! I'm about to 
turn 40 and I know quite a few serious collectors younger than me so I have 
faith that interest in these records will continue on long after I'm gone. 
I'm not sure how Kurt runs his operation, but I'm certainly buying and 
accepting large batches of consignment items as well. I've spent the last 3 
years (and $40,000) working on my own auction site at vmauctions.com & am 
one of the few that are trying to actually earn a living by helping others 
dispose of their records while keeping them in the hands of the individual 
collectors that will cherish and take care of them. I know this discussion 
has been on this forum before, but I think it is so important to keep 
collections out of the hands of universities and institutions and in the 
hands of those that will pay for, enjoy and take care of them until they 
decide it is time to pass them along to the next collector. While 
institutions may seem like a good and reasonable idea, there is always the 
possibility of higher powers making decisions not in the best interest of 
the collections for whatever reason. Normally the collections are only as 
good as the curators and who knows who will eventually replace the people 
who care. I suppose many of you have heard the story of Nick Pearls leaving 
his collection to the Smithsonian who never came to get it! This was one of 
the best collections of early country blues records at the time and would 
have been worth a small fortune (especially considering todays prices)! What 
if they had come to get them? Who knows what would have happened?

I've always seen it as my duty as a collector to make sure that there is a 
plan in place if something were to happen to me to make sure the records 
would move on to others who would care for them just as I had. Many times 
just telling someone to give your records to another collector or dealer is 
not enough. It really should be written into a will and made certain that 
the beneficiary is aware and willing to deal with the issues. It costs a lot 
of money and time to move and store a large collection + it's just a lot of 
hard work. For the sake of the people coming up behind you, please make sure 
to have a plan! I still choke up when I think about the wonderful collection 
that a friend of mine literally pulled out of a dumpster - by pure chance! 
If you haven't heard the story, check it out here - 
http://leoweekly.com/music/dust-brother
This was a wonderful (and valuable) collection including some records I've 
never seen before! Things like this shouldn't happen, especially when there 
are those of us who are trying to scratch out a living by keeping them in 
circulation (and turning records back into money).

I'm in Georgia, but would easily pick records up in Texas, especially if it 
were a collection (maybe not as much with just an accumulation, but it would 
totally depend on the situation).

And for Julian - Unsold stock here either goes back to the collector if it's 
on consignment or on to a set price sale where it can sit until that special 
someone comes along!! I'm still sitting on an accumulation of (I'm figuring) 
around 25,000 or so 78s here. Anyone want to come dig for some dollar 
records?

Malcolm

Venerable Music - http://www.venerablemusic.com
Venerable Radio - http://www.venerableradio.com
78rpm Record Auctions - http://www.vmauctions.com

-----Original Message----- 
From: Robert M. Bratcher Jr.
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 4:01 PM
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: Re: [78-L] How do we advise people on how to dispose 
ofaccumulations like this? + Our St Louis dealer is back

I emailed Kurt Nauck & told him that I was thinking about putting him in my 
will for all the 78's I've got. The reply I got back is that he is very 
selective in what he accepts from collections now so I guess that Fort Nauck 
is way too overloaded with 78's (my guess) so I never put him in my will. To 
be perfectly honest I don't know any younger collectors (or record dealers) 
in the Houston area as they are all in their 40's to 60's at least the ones 
I know personally so I guess that my accumulation of 16, 33, 45 & 78 rpm 
discs will go to the nearest landfill when I die of old age one of these 
days sometime in the next 30 to 40 years or so. Meanwhile I'll be enjoying 
it until that day comes. By the way no need to tell me happy birthday but I 
turned 53 about a week ago on January 2nd so I'm getting older too.

One of my longtime record collector friends is in the last stages of cancer 
& he told his wife to give me all of his records after his funeral. Well 
thats fine & means that my accumulation will get about a third bigger than 
it already is with mainly 45's along with some LP's & 78's which is what he 
collected & it's not the only collection I've aquired after someone passed 
away. Perhaps some of you have inheirited collections from others too & I 
wouldn't be surprised if you have.

We've had discussions before on what to do wiith our 
collections/accumulations of records. Is there a good answer? Who knows? I 
sure don't. And then there are people who think they can sell their 
collections for a mint on Ebay. Yeah right!! Maybe one in a blue moon but 
other than that I doubt the rest would be sold that way.

>________________________________
>From: Steve Shapiro <steveshapiro1 at juno.com>
>To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2012 1:41 PM
>Subject: [78-L] How do we advise people on how to dispose of accumulations 
>like this? + Our St Louis dealer is back
>
>Urrr  . . .  "collections", not accumulations.  Much loved, but mostly 
>unplayed.
>
>http://www.ebay.com/itm/MASSIVE-RECORD-COLLECTION-LOT-45S-33S-78S-/180791774709
>
>was:
>
>http://www.ebay.com/itm/MASSIVE-10-GENERATION-RECORD-LIBRARY-LOT-SOUTH-CHICAGO-LOCATION-45S-33S-78S-/180786994143
>
>It looks like Paul Mawhinney in Pittsburgh has not (yet, hope springs 
>eternal) succeeded in cutting his accumulation loose.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record-Rama
>
>And . . . how is our correspondent Steven B in Toronto doing?
>
>BTW, our good friend in St. Louis is back, with even a rare single-sided 
>cracked 12" Grey Gull for $99:
>
>http://www.ebay.com/sch/my78s4u/m.html?_trkparms=65%253A10%257C66%253A4%257C39%253A1
>
>steve
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