[78-L] Can't believe it !!!

[Erwin Kluwer]

$70 is peanuts. I had two (very rare) albums restored by a
professional  bookbinder for 300 euros!


On Monday, February 24, 2014, Iñigo Cubillo <ice261263 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Recently I approached a bookbinder's workshop in search of newly made
> record albums.
>
> I carried with me one of those brown Decca albums bounded with screws, etc,
> as a model to copy. I believe this is a good album system, as far as they
> have resisted well the last 70 years. It seems cheap and easy to made. In
> Spain they use that kind of lids and bounding system with screws, for many
> documents.
> All good except for the quality of the cardboard sleeves that Decca used
> back in the 40s, which is that brown stuff that tends to get darker and
> tear apart.
>
> I showed to the guy at the workshop the whole system, and left there the
> album simply to copy it and give me and assessment of the cost for 170
> units (with better quality cardboard sleeves, and without the artwork
> pressed in the lids, Morocco style).
>
> $70/each. That is what I got... !!!     The original was bought at Nauck's
> at $5 a piece...
>
> I would have to make the albums myself.
>
> Inigo
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